A year-long study found that impala in a South African game reserve need their own space in the dry season, away from tourists, to reduce their stress.
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Using satellites and AI, scientists have mapped wildebeest across the Serengeti-Mara, offering a new perspective on how this movement can be monitored from space.
Over the past 112 years the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem has experienced major changes in its weather.
Africa’s great wildebeest migrations are being disrupted by roads, cities and agriculture.
Lessons from the Serengeti herds may help conservationists manage migratory herbivore populations.
Four of the five contemporary migrations in East Africa are severely threatened and have virtually collapsed.
Rare colour variants of hunted African species have been known for a long time. Trophy hunters seeking novelty might pay more to hunt these unusually coloured animals.
Many mammals depend on large areas and trans-boundary conservation for their survival. When this is obstructed it can have a catastrophic impact on animal populations.
More and more Africans are becoming citizen scientists – and the benefits are huge both for them as individuals and for science on the continent.
Forget fences and international agreements. This five-year study in the Serengeti has found the way forward.
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Senior Researcher and Statistician, University of Hohenheim
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Professor of Conservation Ecology, University of Gloucestershire
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Zoological Society of London
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Professor of Biology, Wake Forest University
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PhD Zoology, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
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British–French zoologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
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Associate Professor in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Ecology, University of Twente
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Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Zoology and Director, Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton University