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🐾🐀

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

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

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!

Lots of the Wildlife Ecology Lab just arrived at SANParks Golden Gate NP for the SAWMA 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! 🇿🇦🦁🦓🐒🐺

En route to the 12th Oppenheimer research conference😎 Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation

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😍🇿🇦

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

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! Jan A Venter 🇿🇦 #ORC2023 #ORGC

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/

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

Young conservation scientists - tell ConservationOptimism 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!

Read the Journal of Applied Ecology blog on Alice Bernard recent paper investigating how life-history traits are associated with the persistence of mammal species in human-dominated habitats in the Garden Route! 📸🐾🇿🇦

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

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

We had an amazing week at the SAWMA 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!

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…