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All living organisms go through stages of growth and reproduction. The emperor moth does its growing and reproducing in remarkable ways....

Dr Barbara van Asch and Christi Greyling (MSc student) from the Genetics Department of Stellenbosch University visited Ongava Research...

The mopane worm (Gonimbrasia belina) is an unusual edible little critter found in parts of southern Africa. Its life cycle is...

Anyone who has ever worked with carnivores knows that this can be a rather smelly business. Whether it involves carcasses or fresh...

Hello! I´m Tomás Azevedo, a veterinary student from Portugal. As of late I have been learning more about wildlife veterinary care, as...

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...

When I came to Ongava in mid-2018 its vegetation was extremely sparse and dry. Little rain fell in the 2018/2019 summer, which led to...

Macrotermes termites have a symbiotic relationship with Basidiomycetes fungi and play important ecological roles as soil conditioners in...

In October 2021, we conducted our annual camera trap monitoring of Ongava's waterholes. For a period of 7 days, we deployed multiple...

The arrival of the rains not only triggers striking changes in the landscape with the vegetation turning from brown yellow to lush green,...

The roof top of the Visitor Centre is the best spot to watch the sunset (or the sunrise if you are a morning person…), so it should come...

As with other protected areas in the world, Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia has similar problems with humans and dangerous...

Every year after the first significant rains, we are witnesses to one of Nature's fantastic shows: the flight of termites. This is the...

During field trips around Ongava, we see some termite mounds surrounded by areas of bare ground, while other mounds have shrubs, trees...

African lions are estimated to occur in only 12.5 % of their historical range, with the result that many of their populations are...

Placing camera traps in unusual places can go one of two way: an interesting find or a great disappointment. Camera traps were placed ...

If you are a large carnivore enthusiast, you probably have heard that they are wide ranging species requiring a lot of space to establish...

Taking stock of carnivore research in the Greater Etosha Landscape The Greater Etosha Landscape (GEL) is host to a wide diversity of...

Have you ever heard about queleas? Chances are you did hear about these huge flocks of small, red-billed birds destroying crops and being...

In this day and age, plenty of information is available online, thanks to the well-established electronic system. In Namibia, old and...