By Meg Hall of University of Vermont As Gabe and I drove across Chacabuco Valley for a guanaco transect, he spotted many birds; from Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) to juvenile black-chested buzzard eagles (Geranoaetus melanoleucus). He pulled the truck over…
By Grace Horne of Colby College Today we went to an elementary school in Mababe, Botswana. My classmates and I had the opportunity to meet with the headmaster. He sat us around his table-sized desk and waxed lyrical about his…
By Kira Warm Lonsdale of Sarah Lawrence College After a day of driving, unpacking and setting up camp, we spent our first full day learning how to do transects. The instructors took us out to a flat area of the…
By Grace Horne, of Colby College Fieldwork is mostly an amalgam of unfortunate events. Because of all the dangerous wildlife, we have to drive around in trucks to complete transects and get anywhere (especially at night). The trucks sometimes have…
By Indira Palmer of University of Vermont Botswana Student Program – Spring Semester 2020 My 5:45 AM alarm beeps from the watch tightly wrapped around my right wrist and wakes me up from a night of the strangest malaria pill-induced…