Amauréé

An immediate death is not the worst outcome for an animal, but prolonged suffering leading to death is a tragedy. We are keeping overpopulated animals alive merely to ease the public conscience, only for them to succumb to starvation. nspca.co.za/madikwe-game-r…

We have a new paper out by Adélie Destercke from her MSc work on interspecific competition between carnivores at large carcasses. Feel free to have a look: doi.org/10.1111/aje.70…

We had an amazing week at the @SAWMA_wildlife conference 2024 in Windhoek! 🇳🇦🦓 From the road trip up to Windhoek (via Sossusvlei), to an excellent and jam packed conference excellently hosted by @Save_Giraffe 🦒, the whole week was a blast! 🤩 Some great lab presentations too!

Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

Me: "it's just a short presentation, what could go wrong?" Anxiety: "I'm glad you asked!"

Read the @JAppliedEcology blog on @alice_bernard14 recent paper investigating how life-history traits are associated with the persistence of mammal species in human-dominated habitats in the Garden Route! 📸🐾🇿🇦

Young conservation scientists - tell @ConservOptimism what makes you optimistic docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…, and join a chorus of voices from around the world, on how we can make the world a better place through coming together with #ConservationOptimism!

Good news! My article received enough citations to be a #TopCitedArticle in its journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our 2024 camera trap course will take place in Gourikwa Nature Reserve, a stunning coastal location! 🌊🐬🇿🇦 We'll deploy 📸 in a nearby game reserve 🦁 giving participants a great mix of practical experience & taught lectures from two amazing locations! wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses/

It was an informative poster session with a lot of interesting information from various projects! My poster on the effects of hyaena activity hotspots will be up until tomorrow, so feel free to have a look if you are still around! @JanBuffel #ORC2023 #ORGC

Today at the #ORC2023 I will be presenting a poster on the work I've been doing to determine the effects of spotted hyaena dens on smaller predator and small mammal species. I hope to see you there! #ORGC

Very exciting start to the 12th Oppenheimer Research Conference with a welcome from Dame Jane Goodhall and a keynote address by Minister Naledi Pandor #ORC23 Also, how lovely are these complementary lanyards😍🇿🇦

En route to the 12th Oppenheimer research conference😎 @OppGenRC

Lots of the @WildEcoLabNMU just arrived at @SANParks Golden Gate NP for the @SAWMA_wildlife conference 2023! What a stunning park to host a conference! 🤩 Stay tuned for more from our lab speakers at the conference over the next few days! 🇿🇦🦁🦓🐒🐺

On the last day of the #ICCB2023 it was my first time co-moderating a session! We had some very interesting talks presented during this session!

We have two more @WildEcoLabNMU speakers today @ICCB2023 🇷🇼🦍 @ThelLucie will be presenting her research on ungulate birth phenology using #SnapshotSafari data at 11:15 📸🦓🦌 @RobDavis1104 will be presenting on our lion monitoring efforts in Pilanesberg at midday 🦁📸🇿🇦

If you're at @ICCB2023 🇷🇼🦍 and you're not all talked out by now, come along to AD11 at 12pm to hear about our @WildEcoLabNMU lion monitoring work in Pilanesberg! 🦁🇿🇦📸

What an experience! Today I presented some of the work I have been doing related to my PhD project on the effects of hyaenas on other species in their surrounding environment🐾🐀