Selected grantee report

This project is part of a multidisciplinary effort to study the distribution, ecology, health, and reproduction of F. nigripes to collect long-term data. The aims are repeated captures of BFCs for biological sampling and radio-collaring for subsequent observation. Several methods like camera trapping, den monitoring, and focal animal surveys, were employed to survey areas previously known to hold BFCs. From November 2005 until the present, annual capture operations are conducted on BFN. From 2009 to 2018, annual captures were also conducted on two additional properties in the Upper Karoo, Northern Cape, close to the town of De Aar, before research ended on these properties in November 2018. In February 2020 we started with a new study area in southern Namibia. Eighteen reports are available detailing previous fieldwork for download as PDF on the website www.blackfooted-cat.wild-cat.org.