In July 2019, I spent a month studying and researching carnivores in Tanzania. It was an incredible experience, and gave me so many different perspectives on carnivore-human conflict. My work varied from building predator-proof bomas (livestock enclosures) to decrease hyena conflict, meeting with an anti-poaching unit at Manyara Ranch, using radio technology to track a lion pride with the Tarangire Lion Project, taking carnivore population surveys in Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park, and Serengeti National Park, and sleeping in tents beside hyenas.
PHOTOS
Here are some of my best photos from the trip. Other photos are scattered around the website. I took all of these, so please ask permission before using them. The strange black circles are from me using binoculars to take them through my iPhone, since I fell in a river during the first week and ruined my actual camera. The good news of that is that I saw a leopardess by the river about five or ten feet from me.
Header: a spotted hyena facing off against a black-backed jackal for a lion kill in Ngorongoro Crater; this is my photo, and I witnessed the entire spectacle from about ten feet away.