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Field Guide Student News (July & August 2020)

After a rough year due to the pandemic, camp life turned out to be far more than our field guide students expected. Although there are no dangerous animals in camp, you can never stop a leopard. They roam where they want to.

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Every day camp life is never boring. There is always something new to learn or see. But we weren’t expecting to see all this leopard activity.

Our students have been blessed with experiencing regular leopard activity in and around the Gobandlovu Base Camp. This has been one of the highlights for them this year.

One of our Career Development Course Students, Kyla Labuschagne, posted the updates below after finding fresh leopard tracks and drag marks.

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Leopard drag marks from an Impala kill the night before, at Gobandlovu Base Camp
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Captured by one of the Camera Traps on Kuleni

With student life getting back into full swing, the Angasi group has been getting the Activity Center ready again. They are in charge of planning and running early morning activities for all students in camp. Ensuring we don’t miss out on any fun.

There has been a few highlights during the morning guided activities and the leopard activity has certainly made the Track and Sign activities more exciting.

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Carmen, Kyla, Daniel, Warrick and Tyler after their morning walk, highlights were trailing the leopard and a great Gorgeous Bush Shrike sigting.
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Daphne, Daniel, Tommy, Pierre and Alica enjoyed a great and unique sighting of a nesting pair of Grey Sunbirds. The morning mission was to find Pink Throated Twinspot, which eluded them but they were rewarded with nice Purple Crested Turaco display on a Marula Tree – always such a beautiful bird to see!
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Piet, Misae, Alicia and Rikus after a successful morning trailing the leopard.

Bhejane Nature training is situated in Kuleni Game Park and as tourism is slowly starting to pick up, our Bhejane students are excited to share their knowledge and skills with local guests. Surely the guests will be entertained with a few leopard stories in the conversations.

Posted on: 2 October, 2020 by the Bhejane Tribe