Drawing to a close

So my time here is drawing to a close. I haven't written in this blog as often as I should have but pressure of work is my excuse. I have now completed two spoor surveys and two and three quarter camera surveys. I am moving into the social part of my research for my last two months here and will be administering questionnaires and doing interviews with as many farmers as I can.

Below are a few pictures that show what I have been up to for the past several months:


Looking for spoor - and the cold weather gear my tracker is wearing is definitely necessary

Opening one of the dozens of gates we have to go through on the cattle farms while spoor tracking

Negotiating our way through a herd of cattle


Checking one of my camera traps and changing the memory card

Resetting the camera trap for another week's installment