Greater Etosha Carnivore Programme in full swing: collaring lions in Etosha

Updated: Nov 10, 2022

Capture and collaring exercises are always exciting, but they are even more special in the early stages of our Greater Etosha Carnivore Programme!

Early in May 2022, our colleagues from IZW (Leibniz Institute for Zoo Read more

Powering up! VARTA sponsorship for our camera traps

If you have been following this space, you are most probably aware that we use camera traps a lot. And by a lot, I mean that our camera trap deployment at waterholes on Ongava has led to more than Read more

ORC scientists act as the editorial team for the Namibian Journal of Environment

Updated: Mar 28, 2022

This is actually old news we haven’t shared with you yet. A year ago, ORC’s research team of ( Ken Stratford, John Mendelsohn, Florian Weise and Stéphane Périquet), were given the opportunity to take over Read more

Termite sampling across Namibia

Dr Barbara van Asch and Christi Greyling (MSc student) from the Genetics Department of Stellenbosch University visited Ongava Research Centre in March while on a fieldwork trip to collect Macrotermes termites and Termitomyces (locally called Omajowas) for Read more

A novel genetic group of Macrotermes termites in Ongava

Macrotermes termites have a symbiotic relationship with Basidiomycetes fungi and play important ecological roles as soil conditioners in Africa and Asia. The African continent is home to 13 Macrotermes species, which are often consumed for their nutritional and traditional Read more