Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project

Investigating responses of Kalahari organisms, across trophic levels, to environmental change. Supported by @TswaluFdn and proudly driven by @Suzuki_ZA

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Congrats to Anthony and team on the publication of the final chapter from his PhD, describing the costs and benefits of the relationship between sociable weavers and pygmy falcons. Follow the thread to learn about his fascinating findings.

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Jimny Gathering time with @Suzuki_ZA! Ours have made the journey all the way from the Kalahari to Clarens. Amazing to see hundreds of Jimny’s in and around the town.

[Andrea Fuller @AndreaFuller06]

Good to see our @KalahariProject vehicle looking new again after a recent mishap with a herd of African buffalo. The challenges of field research!

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Congratulations to @WendZ_222 on the publication of more of her PhD work, investigating how pangolins respond to changing food availability. Many long hours of data gathering in the Kalahari, supported by @Suzuki_ZA and @Tswalu. https://t.co/Y4OIcYinmi

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

PhD student @makabudi attended the International Mammalogical Congress in Alaska this week, with support through a student travel award from @IMammalogy. She presented her work on dietary overlap between the aardvark and ground pangolin. @Suzuki_ZA @Tswalu

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Learn more about Azraa’s puff adder research, supported by @CopenhagenZoo, and her background, in this interview: https://t.co/XbUDqF08hQ

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Azraa is another student carrying out research under the KEEP umbrella. We will bring you more updates on her research soon.

[HerpAssociationAfrica @AfricaHerp]

Meet Azraa Ebrahim. Azraa is a PhD student @FoSWits in @WitsUniversity .Her project aims to characterise the thermal biology, space use and metabolic responses of ambush-foraging puff adders @Tswalu . #snakes #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling #SaveTheSnakes #conservationoptimism

[Tswalu Kalahari Reserve @Tswalu]

Find out why Wits master’s student Daniel Rossouw is so excited about his pangolin research on Tswalu, a new project that falls under the Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project: https://t.co/fBCgVapcAM
#Conservation #Pangolin #TswaluFoundation #kalahariproject

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Continuing our long-term transects in the Kalahari to investigate how vegetation and invertebrates change over time. Crucial information for understanding impacts on food webs. With support from @Suzuki_ZA and @Tswalu

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Kim Scholtz, a PhD student at the University of the Western Cape, recently visited Tswalu to investigate whether Cape cobras were still active around sociable weaver nests. With no breeding birds at this time of year, there were no cobras to be found.

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Great to see Femi’s work on the breeding biology of pygmy falcons published!

[. @olufemiolubodun]

Published the first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis. You can download it via https://t.co/mckZpD6JWk
We @AnthonyLowney @diabolopo & @robertL_thomson highlight the breeding biology of Africa’s smallest diurnal #raptor – the Pygmy Falcon. #ornithology #breedingbirds @Fitztitute @Tswalu

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

We’re delighted to have Daniel Rossouw joining the team. Daniel will conduct MSc research to further explore the ecological role of pangolins and their importance in a dryland ecosystem. He is off to a good start, with the brilliant @Suzuki_ZA Jimny to help him out!

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Do sociable weaver nests matter for reptiles? Read more here. With support from @Suzuki_ZA and @TswaluFdn. https://t.co/eaAXhavTTn

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

In a wonderful blog, @halbrindley describes his journey to the Kalahari to see an aardvark at @Tswalu and get involved in our research, with the help of some fine @Suzuki_ZA vehicles!

[Suzuki SA @Suzuki_ZA]

A dream come true, watching an aardvark in the Kalahari
https://t.co/8lklYf3vMg

[Tswalu Kalahari Reserve @Tswalu]

Read Colin Nagy’s @Skift interview with ground pangolin expert @wendz_222 whose research project fell under the umbrella of the @KalahariProject (KEEP) https://t.co/SwBQfMpSSC
#wildlifeconservation #climatechange #climateresearch #climateaction

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Read more on our pangolin research here: https://t.co/7HICNzZkh1

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Our team carrying out insect and vegetation transects at @Tswalu, extending our measurements into the 9th year (measurements every two months). With the help of our trusty @Suzuki_ZA Jimny.

[Wendy Panaino @WendZ_222]

⚠️ATTENTION budding scientists ‼️ Interested in pursuing an MSc on the world’s only truly scaly mammal? APPLY APPLY APPLY!! #pangolins #science #education

@AndreaFuller06

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Fascinating foraging association observed between Cape foxes and striped polecats. Well done to @KalahariProject member @WendZ_222, @Arctic_paws and Alexander Sliwa on publishing these observations.

[Sandra Lai @sandralai.bsky.social @Arctic_paws]

🚨Hot off the press: Our exciting new report of a small canid and small mustelid pairing up to hunt ground-dwelling prey in the Kalahari!😲

Great observation and follow-up Wendy Panaino (@WendZ_222) and Alexander Sliwa!

Link to the article ➡️https://t.co/YGZxLkHqHm

[Kalahari Endangered Ecosystem Project @KalahariProject]

Thank you @Suzuki_ZA for supporting our research with another Jimny! We’re now so well equipped to access remote sites for our fieldwork. #BornForThis #SuzukiSA