Back from South Africa!

I went to South Africa with my uni about 2 weeks ago and have recently come back with lots of pics to show off! We stayed Mankwe Wildlife Reserve and learnt lots while I was there. We did some burn management, which is when sections of the reserve are burnt to allow for the nutritious grass to grow through, scat analysis which is basically looking at poo and seeing inside it, what the animal has eaten, did some tracking and learnt to identify different species footprints and poo, did some transects (on foot and in car) couting the animals we saw as we went so we could learn to mathimatically work out an estimation of the number of animals on the reserve, we also went on drives on the reserve almost everyday and did some night drives too to look for the nocternal animals!

We even left Mankwe to go to predator World, Pilanesburg Nature Reserve and Ann Van Dyk Cheetah Centre to see how the animals are managed differently (and to look at all the lovely animals lol). We had also set some camera traps to see the shyer animals too. It was a packed 2 weeks and I´m so glad I did it, I´m going to see if I can go again next year!

I´ve uploaded some of my images into this album already and still have more to put up http://www.petstreet.co.uk/Album/728841.South%20Africa? :)