ABOUT US
OUR TEAM
J.W. 'TICO' MCNUTT
Founder and Director
LESLEY MCNUTT
Co-founder. Director of Social Programs. Director of CC.
KRYS GOLABEK
Field Reserch. Director of Applied Conservation Biology.
John Neelo
MEGAN CLAASE
Research and Social Media Coordinator
PETER APPS
Laboratory Director. Bioboundary Research.
LAST GABANAKEMO
OBUSITSWE (OBI) RAMOSIMO
FINE GABANAKEMO
PETER BRACK
ALLEN MONNAATSHIPI
ED VAN MOURIK
OPIE KELEBILE
DOMINIK BEHR
DR GABRIELE COZZI
For over two decades, the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust has been working to study and preserve wildlife in Africa. What started as the Botswana Wild Dog Research Project in 1989, and has become BPCT – one of the longest running conservation projects on the continent. Our organisation researches and protects all the large carnivore species in Botswana (wild dog, lion, leopard, cheetah and spotted hyaena) along with their habitats.
BPCT uses scientific enquiry to better understand the behaviour of these animals, using academic endeavour to foster a better future in developing countries. We operate at the point where communities and conservation meet, linking environmental issues to decision making in the ongoing development of rural Africa.
RESEARCHERS AND COLLABORATORS
Kasim Rafiq
Collaborator Post-doctoral Research: Citizen Science and Large Carnivore Population monitoring, UCSC.
Cameron Radford
PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales: Developing communication-based coexistence tools for big cats and livestock
Dominik Behr
PhD candidate, University of Zurich: African wild dog dispersal
Gabriele Cozzi
Post-doctoral researcher, University of Zurich: African wild dog dispersal
Professor Briana Abrahms
Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, Department of Biology, University of Washington
Professor Alan Wilson
Collaborator, Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, London: biomechanics of locomotion
Professor Neil Jordan
Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales & Taronga Institute of Science and Learning, Taronga Conservation Society Australia
ALUMNI
Dr Kasim Rafiq
PhD thesis, Liverpool John Moores University: Leopard movement ecology and communication.
Dr Geoff Gilfillan
PhD thesis, University of Sussex: Lion communication
Dr Jessica Vitale
PhD thesis, University of Nottingham: Spotted hyena communication and competition
Dr Briana Abrahms
PhD thesis: The Ecology and Conservation of Animal Movement in Changing Land- and Seascapes. (2016)
Dr Lindsey Rich
PhD thesis; Monitoring and Conserving Carnivore Communities across Northern Botswana (2016)
Kelly Stoner
MSc thesis; Changes in pastoralist attitiudes toward carnivores in Botswana’s Okavango Delta (2013)
Matthew Pomilia
MSc thesis; Intraspecific variation in African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) ranging patterns in northern Botswana (2012)
Dr Gabriele Cozzi
PhD thesis; Patterns of habitat use and segregation among african large carnivores (2012)
Dr Femke Broekhuis
PhD thesis; `Niche segregation by cheetah as a mechanism for coexistence with lions and spotted hyaena (2012)
Dr Megan Parker
PhD thesis; territoriality and scent marking behavior of African wild dogs in northern Botswana (2010)
Dr Hugh Webster
PhD thesis; Vocal communication and cognitive
abilities in a “fugitive” species: the African wild dog (2008)
Dr Matt Swarner (Muir)
PhD thesis; Factors associated with wild predator conflict in range lands with free-ranging livestock in western Botswana (2008)
Dive straight into the feedback!Login below and you can start commenting using your own user instantly