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Posted by “We are cheetah friendly”. The sign hangs on the gates of farms who participate in Cheetah Outreach’s Livestock Guardian Dog Program. In a land where commercial farming has encroached on wildlife for generations, certain NGOs and farmers are working together to create new ways of solving the problems of predation. Cheetah Outreach comes not…
Posted by Over 2011 and 2012, Paul Colangelo camped on Todagin Mountain with its large herd of endangered Stone’s Sheep for five months to tell the story of the herd and document its habitat use, using specialized camera equipment to record the movements of the sheep across the plateau. Learn more in his earlier posts: Surviving Todagin.…
Starting each day with a two-hour hike in the dark up a snow-covered mountain, Paul Colangelo is on a mission to record the frenzied activity of Stone’s sheep battling for the chance to mate.
By Paul Colangelo, International League of Conservation Photographers Among the mountainous folds of remote northwestern British Columbia lies Todagin Mountain, a grassy plateau 15 miles long and five miles wide that is thought to have the highest density of Stone’s sheep in the world. The herd lives year-round on the plateau and slopes of Todagin,…
These people work hard out here; the conservationists, the farmers, everyone. The hot days of October dictate an early rise to reach the far-flung locations that entail research, data gathering and community outreach. I’m in the central Kalahari region, just outside the town of Ghanzi in Botswana. It’s hot, like… Africa hot… as the cliché…
Carcass Disposal–A Conservation Tool for Predators: Interview with Dr. Seth Wilson
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of University of Alaska on July 12, 2011 To your average Westerner, the words “management of predators” typically conjure up reactive, and terminal measures following a negative experience with dangerous, nuisance animals. Preventive measures to mitigate human-predator conflict are now commonly employed by ranchers. Why? Reactive management is very time consuming, for one thing. Secondly, the need to ‘put down’ an animal is often perceived as…
Posted by For a planet at the center of so many discussions about life, Mars can seem like a really dead world. It’s cold, dry, and dusty with a thin atmosphere that doesn’t block out much solar radiation. There’s minerals and gullies that suggest water flowed there more than three billion years ago, but aside from a…
