Not quite an ecorestoration program, but a wilf life monitoring and protection program.

Summer 2015, I worked for a wild life protection service call Wild Life ACT. I spend a month in African reserves, helping a local monitor surveying wild animals.

The first two weeks, I put off and put on trap cameras to survey the comings and goings of panthers in the reserves. They helped monitor other animals like hyenas but the main targets were lions, cheetahs and leopards.

The last two weeks, we monitored wild dogs (“lycaon” in French) and rhinoceros because of collars they were equipped of. We were making sure they were safe and healthy, these animals being too many times killed for money by poachers.

The rhythm was quite frantic: waking up at 4 am to spend sometimes 7 hours on a truck searching for animals we weren’t sure to see, and going back the afternoon for 5 more hours.

We could spend an entire day without seeing the dogs or rhinos. It is very interesting to search for such big animals like rhinos able to hide in bushes, invisible to untrained eyes, but a bit frustrating.

 

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