Life as an intern at the Ongava Research Centre

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Update from the field




- Sep 4
- 4 min
Looking beyond the light: how does artificial lighting at waterholes affect mammal behaviour?


- Aug 14
- 3 min
Seeing Sounds: Surveying Ongava’s bats


- Jul 26
- 3 min
The more, the merrier! Deploying more collars on Etosha’s carnivores


- May 31
- 2 min
Ringing in a new collaboration


- May 24
- 3 min
If two heads are better than one, then two field sites are absolutely better than one

- May 10
- 2 min
All big things start small


- Mar 13
- 4 min
Long-term vegetation monitoring infrastructure at Ongava


- Feb 24
- 3 min
Monitoring wildlife crossing the fence between Etosha and the surrounding human landscape


- Feb 6
- 2 min
A camera trap grid runs through it: surveying Etosha wildlife large scale and long term!


- Jan 25
- 2 min
sDNA Metabarcoding: Opening the Doors to Understanding Carnivore Diets

- Jan 9
- 2 min
Big birds with even bigger personalities


- Dec 20, 2022
- 2 min
Animal husbandry, herding & livestock movements in the northern periphery of Etosha National Park


- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
Ongava’s social spiders and Gabar goshawks


- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
Waterholes in a semi-arid environment


- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
Identifying potential corridors and conservation areas for lions and elephants in northern Namibia


- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
Seeds for a new generation of conservationists and scientists


- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
What we have been missing but the cameras haven’t! Annual camera trap waterhole monitoring


- Oct 11, 2022
- 2 min
The Elephants Versus The Bush: Photopoints help to reveal forgotten landscapes

- Sep 26, 2022
- 2 min
Mammals and their microbes: Unraveling the gut microbiome of Etosha's herbivores