At the Earth of the Karoo Predator Project

(2014 - 2015) Karoo - South Africa

During the 2014-2015 period,  we will follow and report the unprecedented work of a young French scientist Marine Drouilly who tries to better understand the extremely strained relations ship between sheep farmers and two common meso-predators that are the Black-backed Jackal and the Caracal.

With the confidence of local farmers, the scientist hope to bring a better understanding of the ecological and sociological mechanisms that underlies the conflict. Numbers of farmers see this as an opportunity to go further and to finally live on their farms while preserving the biodiversity that is dear to them despite the harshness of cohabitation.

This remarkable work performed on an unprecedented scale (whether in Africa or globally), could well be considered as a reference in this field and thus find wide coverage in Europe and the United States on the issue Human / predator.