African Predator Conservation Research Organization

We have moved!  Our new address is;

848 Rainbow Boulevard #A3

Las Vegas, NV  89107

Phone/Fax# 702-256-0549

Please contact us also at admin@apcro.org with any questions.

The APCRO team is heading to Botswana in the next few weeks! Please stay posted for more details on this exciting trip!

Dr. Briggs is heading to Botswana soon!

APCRO is going to be adding new pictures, a publications page and several other great updates to the website!  Please view all the pages to our site to see the exciting new additions!

APCRO’s July newsletter is going to be sent out soon!

January’s newsletter going to press and will be out soon.  Also, please check our partner’s page to see our current supporters!

The APCRO team is back in the USA and putting together reports and October’s newsletter! We had a very successful trip of 12 animals (lion, leopard, hyena and African wild dogs) We are already trying to raise funds for a trip in November!

Another great night in the bush! On our way to our call up site there were several different types of antelope including Roan and Sable. We had lots of hyena respond to the call up and were able to immobilize two females and one male. We saw lots of leopard spore but no leopards came in to the call up.
This morning we started bright and early for processing samples and preparing to leave for another night of work.

Sable

One of the satellite collars retrieved!

Last evening was a great success! We went to the region where two female hyenas were fitted for satellite collars two years ago. They had dropped off the animals several months ago (Via a collar release mechanism) and via VHF we were able to quickly locate both collars! They will be brought back to the USA to be refurbished for future work.
We stayed in the region and did a call-up near a large pan. There was a large clan of Hyena and we immobilized a dominant female for sample processing. When we did a call up after the hyena, a young male leopard came in and we were able to immobilize him as well. Samples were collected and both anesthesia’s were successful. Our worked was completed well into the night and returned to camp about 3:00 am.
Beth, Josh and Shake (University of Minnesota third year Veterinary students) woke up early to start processing samples. We performed fecal analysis as well as CBC and prepared samples to be returned to our collaborators in the USA. Stayed tuned for more as we are preparing for another successful night!