I obtained a BSc. In Zoology and Entomology in 1994 from Rhodes University, South Africa. My final year undergraduate research involved a geographic discriminant analysis of honey bee populations (Apis mellifera sp.) of south-western Africa using chromatographic analysis of mandibular and sting pheromones. I then obtained an Honours degree in Marine Biology in 1995. My […]

Beit Scholar I read for a B.Sc. Degree majoring in Zoology and Ichthyology at Rhodes University, South Africa, followed by an Honours Degree in African Vertebrate Biodiversity. I went on to catch crocodiles in Mozambique for a year and a half before being offered the opportunity to volunteer on WildCRU’s Hwange Big Cat Project in […]

Kaplan Research Fellow Lady Margaret Hall   Andrew Loveridge is the Kaplan Senior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and the Wildlife Conservation Unit, Oxford University. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he read for his doctoral degree in Zoology at Oxford, and after graduating embarked on a career as an ecologist and conservationist. Since 1999 […]

Brent Stapelkamp is a Zimbabwean and has been with the Hwange Lion Project full-time for 3 years. As a holder of a Zimbabwe professional guide’s license Brent has guided safaris in Hwange prior to his joining the lion project. Brent spent several years in the UK and came back to Zimbabwe in 2006 after graduating […]

I joined WildCRU in 2006 having completed my PhD in 2004 from Manchester Metropolitan University on the behavioural ecology of bachelor male patas monkeys in Kenya. I quantitatively assessed the habitat quality of bachelor male ranges and explored other factors affecting their ranging patterns. Previously I worked in Zambia on blue monkeys, contributing to a […]