WRON Wildlife Research Okomitundu Namibia

11/09/2017

11/09/2017

Ein Leopard im Wohngebiet? - Lokales - Windhoek (fis) • Ungewöhnlicher Bewohner: In den Stadtteilen Auas-Blick und Olympia soll sich ein Leopard... - Allgemeine Zeitung

22/02/2017

Gesetzesänderung in Namibia:
Höhere Strafen als Abschreckung für Wilderer!?

https://www.az.com.na/nachrichten/extreme-strafen-fr-wilderer-

19/02/2017

LEOPARD UPDATE

Earlier this year, South African Environmental Affairs minister Edna Molewa announced a ZERO quota for leopard hunts in 2017.

04/10/2016

Am 30. Oktober 2016 in Göttingen:
Über Leoparden und Braune Hyänen auf kommerziellem Farmland und Synergien mit dem Tourismus referieren Dipl.-Biol. Bernhard Vogt und Tierärztin Jennifer Kraushaar.

Die DNG fördert die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zwischen Deutschland und Namibia, Jugendaustausch, Umweltschutz, vergibt Stipendien und gibt das Namibiamagazin heraus.

08/09/2015

A study found the species well distributed across the country, indicating that India's leopard population is "quite healthy".

India finally has an estimate of its most populous and elusive large predator, the leopard. The first ever count of India’s leopards, conducted alongside last year’s tiger census, has put the spotted cat population at 7,910 in and around tiger habitats across the country, except the northeast.

16/02/2015

http://africageographic.com/blog/camera-traps-for-the-cape-leopard-trust/

My Planet helping the Cape Leopard Trust by funding amazing camera trap technology.

21/11/2014

http://www.discoverwildlife.com/gallery/bbc-wildlife-camera-trap-photo-year-2014-winners

The most prestigious camera-trap competition has been overhauled with new categories for research and photographic achievement.

31/07/2014

brown hyena feeding trials:
Big thank you to Opel Zoo Frankfurt (and to Rocky & Ayte) for your great support !

03/07/2014

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/25/lair-of-the-leopard-to-cache-kills-leopards-prefer-caves-over-trees/

A nameless cave from which a whirlwind blows, Pliny the Elder referred to it in his work Naturalis Historia. Vjetrenica, it would later be called. Icy breaths exhale from the mouth of Vjetrenica, t...

22/06/2014

Aardwolf (Proteles cristata)

20/06/2014

BIG Pants (Bradyporinae):
it´s a army with thousands of soldiers - feeding everytime and everywhere AND everything, e.g. the scats of our leopards and hyenas.

14/06/2014

" Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. "
(Arthur Schopenhauer)

Usually field work is FUN for us!
But sometime it is WAR! ;-)

09/06/2014

Nocturnal animals are active during the night and sleep during the day. They genreally have highly developed senses of hearing and smell, and mostly specially adapted eyesight. Some nocturnal animals have eyes that can adapt to both low-level and bright day levels of illumination and are known as metaturnal, whereas others, such as the bushbaby, can function only at night. Many nocturnal creatures have large eyes in comparison to their body size in order to compensate for the lower light levels during the night.
Being nocturnal certainly has its advantages, for instance in hotter countries like Namibia it is much cooler to venture out at night and of course it is easier to hide from predators under the cover of darkness.

09/06/2014

01/06/2014

The SOUL & the hole of the aardvark!
@ Apostelberge, Okomitundu 05/2014

29/05/2014

Employee of the Month MAY:
Brown Hyena (Hyaena brunnea)

29/05/2014

The food delivery service...thanks to the hyena!
Dead Kudu calf brought by the hyena serves as a meeting point for different leopards!

19/05/2014

The camera trap at the hyena den was successful: ;-)
Hyena mum with at least two youngsters !