Dr Leah Findlay has recently been working with the BBC on a great production called ‘Animals with Camera’s. In this ground breaking new series, wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan joins forces with a number of scientists to put cameras on animals. Together, they make extraordinary discoveries about the lives of some of the planet’s most fascinatingContinue reading “PPP on the BBC!”
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Glorious Bushveld living
Any destination in the world is usually made up of people, things and places. Living and working at the Alldays Wildlife and Communities Research Centre, I am broadening my horizons of the kinds of great people and amazing sceneries you get in life. Meeting and getting to know new volunteers, students, farmers and other localsContinue reading “Glorious Bushveld living”
Table manners
At the Alldays Wildlife and Communities Research Centre, we are busy finding out which of the locally grown crops are most preferred by baboons. This is important information to know when developing an effective mitigation method, as something that successfully deters a baboon from their least preferred crop meal, may not work on their favouriteContinue reading “Table manners”
Getting things off the ground!
This is the intended place for all things Alldays WCRC and you can look forward to regular updates from our various volunteers and staff. We are very open to ideas and one of them is to drive some sort of community engagement for our crop raiding project. We would love to test ideas for keepingContinue reading “Getting things off the ground!”
Africa at her finest
On the rare occasions when rain does fall and offers some reprieve from the relentless heat, the visual spectacle that is the bushveld is awesomely magnified. I have to feel privileged to witness such beauty and am reminded of the great responsibility we have of looking after the wild places of this world.