1. Faculty of Natural Resources and Spatial Sciences
Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences
Dr. Morgan Hauptfleisch – Departmental Research Coordinator
Telemetry symposium

2. Faculty of Natural Resources and Spatial Sciences
Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences
Post-graduate programme in Natural Resource Management (Nature Conservation)
Honours (NQF Level 8) Started 2013
Masters (NQF Level 9) by Research started 2014
PhD (NQF level 10) approved 2016
Current Masters: 28 students
Graduated: 6 to date: (six international peer reviewed papers, two in press)
Collaborative research: Univ. St. Andrews, Univ. Cork, Univ. Potsdam, Frei Univ. Berlin, Hamburg, EPFL Switzerland, NASA, Univ. New Mexico, Univ. Nevada, Dartmouth, WPI (Massachusetts) UFS, Stellenbosch, UNAM.

3. NRM (Nature
Conservation)
Student & research faculty

5. Ungulate movements in the Greater Sossusvlei Namib Landscape

6. Aim of the project:
Determine the movements of large ungulates in the Namib, and the impact of fences on these movements

8. Home range shapes (Honours student S. Urban)
Fig. 3 a - d. Total home ranges of springbok using a 95% utilisation distribution (UD). Dark blue contours represent the highest probability density of springbok.

9. Home range sizes – seasonal trends

10. Seasonal movements
Fig. 7 a – d. Monthly home ranges of zebra. Dots represent centroids of each home range (95% UD) and numbers represent the months from the start to the end of the data collection period.

11. Effects of fences
Above: Linear location pings of Springbok Nan 135 and Nan 134 indicating limitation of movement by the fences between NaDEET and Wereldend. Nan 135 was the animal freed by Peter Woolfe from entanglement in the fence in February.
Fig.12 a – c. Impact of fences on the movement of springbok 134, springbok 135, oryx 1765 and oryx 1769 in the GSNL and surrounding areas.

13. Home range and thermal analysis of two sympatric
tortoise species (Stigmochelys pardalis and Psammobates
Oculifer)

14. Behavioural and Spatial Ecology of the
Puff Adder, Bitis arietans, and the effects of
translocation as a conflict management Strategy