ORC Intern
Life as an intern at the Ongava Research Centre
Hello everyone! I am Rhys, a wildlife sciences undergraduate student at the University of Georgia, USA working in Dr. Jim Beasley’s lab,...
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Blog & News
Update from the field
Stéphanie Périquet
- Aug 21
- 5 min
Expert or Novice: do we see the same things?
Camera traps have become an invaluable tool for wildlife scientists, allowing us to capture images and videos of animals without...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Jun 7
- 3 min
Counting giraffes at waterholes: which method to choose?
If you have been reading previous blogs, I am sure that by now, you are familiar with the fact that ecologists like to count things,...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Mar 20
- 1 min
Talking about our spotted cats at the Global Leopard Conference
The Global Leopard Conference took place from the 13 to 17th of March 2023. This was one of a kind virtual event fully dedicated to one...
Maddie Melton
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Monitoring wildlife crossing the fence between Etosha and the surrounding human landscape
As the global human population increases, the competition for space and resources results in increased human-wildlife interactions from...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Feb 6
- 2 min
A camera trap grid runs through it: surveying Etosha wildlife large scale and long term!
One of the many challenges that wildlife biologists and managers face is to know how many animals occur in a given area, how they...
ORC Team
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
What we have been missing but the cameras haven’t! Annual camera trap waterhole monitoring
September was that time of the year again… What time?? Well, annual waterhole monitoring of course!! As those who have been following us...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Jun 3, 2022
- 1 min
Powering up! VARTA sponsorship for our camera traps
If you have been following this space, you are most probably aware that we use camera traps a lot. And by a lot, I mean that our camera...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
Dry season waterhole monitoring
In October 2021, we conducted our annual camera trap monitoring of Ongava's waterholes. For a period of 7 days, we deployed multiple...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
A spotted rooftop visitor spotted…
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...
Florian Weise
- Nov 19, 2020
- 1 min
Turning A Blind Eye?
Camera traps are one of the most popular wildlife monitoring and research tools. They record spectacular wildlife images, such as this ...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Mar 5, 2020
- 1 min
Using automated recognition software to identify leopards from their spot patterns
After the few seconds spent in awe following spotting a leopard, we usually grab our camera to record that rare encounter. As scientists,...
Florian Weise
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
The Wildlife Facebook
Most large mammals enjoy a good scratch, rhinos especially after a mud bath. To find out more about this behaviour, we video-monitored a...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Nov 6, 2019
- 1 min
How many giraffe live on Ongava?
Obtaining reliable estimate for wildlife population sizes is highly desirable for management and conservation purposes but it is rarely a...
Florian Weise
- Oct 10, 2019
- 1 min
Annual Census
During the second half of September, at the peak of this year’s drought, ORC conducted an intensive camera trapping survey on Ongava....
Stéphanie Périquet
- Oct 8, 2019
- 1 min
Black Mongoose
Ongava is home to numerous endemic mammal, bird, reptile and plant species. But among mammals, only one is a carnivore and it is the...
Stéphanie Périquet
- Sep 27, 2019
- 1 min
Spotted cats on a full moon night
August full moon nocturnal monitoring was filled with sightings of our most secretive big cat. It started with 2 leopards were observed...
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