Botswana

by Eleanor Silver, of University of Vermont This past week, we were in Phuduhudu conducting wildlife transects. We did different transects to record either herbivores or birds. I participated in one bird transect where I got to see a paradise…

by Griffin Weller, of University of Vermont Dumela! Hello! And welcome to the Africa I have begun to know and loved from the moment we met. Over the last month there have been spectacular sights, exhilarating encounters, and formative friends…

by Mariel Ferragamo, of Colby College It’s been one month that we’ve been stationed here in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park of Botswana. Our research in the park was focused on a wildlife fence put up inside the park that…

by Jacob Ney, of College of Saint Benedict / Saint John’s University 05:30- Your watch goes off and you arise to prepare for a transect, careful not to awake your tentmate as you dress and shine around your headlamp. You…

by Colleen Powers, of the University of Vermont            After months of anticipation, the seven of us in the Pitse Botswana Round River group arrived in Maun, Botswana on February 7th, and after a few days of settling into the program,…