Project Report
| Mar 11, 2025
March 2025 Update
By Eugene Troskie | Managing Director
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Collaring the female spotted hyena
Dear donors,
We have received $1641.59 donations on GlobalGiving plus $700.00 through private donations and $5000.00 in grants towards our project to purchase wildlife research collars. We have raised a total of $7341.59 of our $16,000.00 goal. We have purchased two research collars and will be ordering another collar soon.
In December 2024 we successfully collared an adult female Spotted Hyena. Data gathered from the spotted hyena since we started:
- She has covered 547.90km in 55 days, walking +/-
10km per night. She traverses over six properties
and has a territory of roughly 6000 hectares. Her
core home range covers and area of about 1200
hectares. We have determined where her den site
is and will soon be installing trail cameras to
monitor her, her cubs and the rest of her clan to
check for any snares or snare related injuries
popping up.
- Through following up on her collar data we have discovered multiple carcasses of wild animals killed in snares including that of a buffalo cow.
- We have discovered and destroyed a very active poacher's camp after she visited the site to scavenge on the remains of the poachers victims.
- We removed 162 poachers snares after following up on the hyena's collar data.
- We apprehended a poacher while following up on the hyena's collar data.
We are currently trying to get the second purchased collar on a spotted hyena and will be placing an order for a third collar soon.
Thank you for your continued support and making this project possible.
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Spotted Hyena Territory Map
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Team with apprehended poacher and removed snares.
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Nov 21, 2024
November 2024 Update
By Eugene Troskie | Managing Director
![Placing a collar on a lioness]()
Placing a collar on a lioness
Dear donors,
We have received $592 donations on GlobalGiving and $5000.00 in grants towards our project to purchase wildlife research collars. We have purchased two research collars to be placed on two Spotted Hyena, we are currently in the process of collaring the hyena.
Our aim is to add an additional four collars, on top of the two we are currently implementing, to a research project run by our partners, the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT).
The reason for collaring Lions, Hyenas and possibly other species is due to them inhabiting an area where they are at a very high risk to being killed by poachers.
We recently again lost four Spotted Hyena and seven Lions in snares in this area and we had to remove a snare from one hyena in the same area.
We have assisted (EWT) in collaring one Lioness and one African Wild Dog since our last report.
We are hoping to get quite a few collars on lions and spotted hyena as it will greatly improve the collection of data on threats and ways to try and prevent the high number of losses experienced due to poaching.
We are looking forward to making this project a success.
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Wild dog collar
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Male African Wild dog about to be collared
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Jul 29, 2024
August 2024 Update
By Eugene Troskie | Managing Director
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Wild Dog being Collared
Dear donors,
We have received $586.17 donations on GlobalGiving and $5000.00 in grants towards our project to purchase wildlife research collars. We will soon purchase two research collars to be placed on two Spotted Hyena.
Our aim is to add an additional four collars, on top of the two we will be doing soon, to a research project run by our partners, the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT).
The reason for collaring Lions, Hyenas and possibly other species is due to them inhabiting an area where they are at a very high risk to being killed by poachers.
We recently again lost four Spotted Hyena and seven Lions in snares in this area and we had to remove a snare from one hyena in the same area.
We have assisted (EWT) in collaring four Lions and one African Wild Dog since our last report.
We are hoping to get quite a few collars on lions and spotted hyena as it will greatly improve the collection of data on threats and ways to try and prevent the high number of losses experienced due to poaching.
We are looking forward to making this project a success.
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Lioness collared
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Collaring a male lion before being relocated
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Lioness collared
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