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Kenya Field Course 2016
Back in November, the five of us visited Kenya for the MRes field course. The aim of the trip was to study a number of field techniques and compare the different conservation management strategies used at two conservancies, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and Westgate Community Conservancy. First, we visited Lewa Wildlife Conservancy where we stayed for […]
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Welcome MRes Wildlife Conservation Cohort 2016/17!
Aggie Thompson, 22 Background: I graduated from the University of Southampton in 2015 with BSc Zoology, specialising in ecology, behaviour and conservation. During the summer of 2015, I conducted a study on the impact of new artificial lighting systems on bat activity on Southampton Common as part of an internship for Southampton City Council. I […]
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Goodbye and good luck MRes cohort 2015-16!
The last few months have been very busy for our MRes Wildlife Conservation students, with the end of one academic year followed almost immediately by the start of the next! The 2015-16 cohort of students rounded off the course at the end of September with their research presentations and vivas. It was a very […]
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Distribution of large herbivores in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe
Written by Alex Phillips It’s now been almost a month since fellow MRes student Tessa and I returned from Zimbabwe; where we split our time between the Dambari Wildlife Trust and the beautiful Matobo National Park that is part of the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site. Though it was odd to be apart and back […]
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Spotted hyenas and lions in northern Kenya
Written by Arjun Dheer My fieldwork in Kenya has come and gone in the blink of an eye! I’ve now been back in the UK for almost 3 months, but my arrival in Kenya back on February 22nd, feels like yesterday! My project focuses on dietary and spatiotemporal resource partitioning between the two apex predators in […]
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Large grazers in the Matobo National Park
Written by Tessa Chesonis After a couple of months of preparation in the UK, fellow MRes student Alex and I made our way to Zimbabwe to start collecting data for our projects. We’ve now been here for six weeks, staying with the Dambari Wildlife Trust and spending most of our time in the wonderful Matobo […]
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Barn owl conservation in the South Downs National Park
Written by Flávia C. B. Trigo With just a few months to go until we finish the MRes Wildlife Conservation course, it is unbelievable how fast time is passing by! Some of our fellows are still out conducting fieldwork in Zimbabwe, while the students who went out to Kenya are back and getting stuck into […]
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An update from Kenya: managing grassland for grazers
As the end of our fieldwork approaches, those of us here in Kenya are a little amazed at how fast the time has flown! After 10 weeks here at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy we are now wrapping up our data collection ready to return to the UK. My project focuses on investigating the grassland management techniques […]
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Data incoming from Kenya!
By Sian Green… It is hard to believe that I am almost halfway through the fieldwork phase of my project already, after arriving in Kenya with fellow MRes student Rebecca in early March! Having already spent some time at the Marwell Wildlife camp in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy as part of our field trip last year, it took only […]
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Let the research begin!
With semester 1 complete and our project proposals successfully submitted, we are now all getting stuck into our research projects in various places around the world including Kenya, Zimbabwe and here in the UK. Here is a brief introduction to the research I am going to be conducting over the next 5 months. For my […]
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