There is not much to tell at the moment. I’m still working on the proposal, as most will agree that to work with beautiful animals such as leopards, preparation is of utmost importance. As a result, on Sunday March the 2nd I will travel to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park to see one of the leading authorities on African Large Carnivores in an attempt to share ideas and prepare a suitable project to be conducted in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. The main aim here is to look at the ecology of the leopards in the region for conservation purposes.

Author: Nakedi

Nakedi W. Maputla has just finished a Master’s Degree on the systematics of pouched mice, Saccostomus campestris from southern Africa with the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria. From February 2005 to September 2007 he worked at TuksSport Combined School in Pretoria where he was a Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Technology and Physiology educator. He joined African Wildlife Foundation as a leopard researcher at the beginning of October 2007.