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September 23, 2016

Camera traps reveal extraordinary wildlife

Caracal. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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Caracal. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera

A camera trap survey in one of Africa's largest conservation landscapes has captured an exciting range of species – from honey badgers and caracals to a hyena holding an elephant's trunk…

Situated in a region where five African countries converge, Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area, is the largest of its kind in the world. Despite its enormous strategic importance for African biodiversity, relatively little is known about the presence, abundance and distribution of key species within the Angola section of KAZA.

With support from the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), one team of 2016 award-winners is working to bridge that by compiling a wildlife inventory with the aid of carefully located .

Initial results have been, to say the least, exciting. Here is a snapshot of some of the spectacular wildlife (including threatened species) that has already been captured on film.

Honey badgers. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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Honey badgers. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
Hyena and elephant trunk. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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Hyena and elephant trunk. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
African lion. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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African lion. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
Zorilla. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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Zorilla. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
African wild dog. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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African wild dog. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
Bat-eared fox. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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Bat-eared fox. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
Porcupine. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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Porcupine. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
African elephants. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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African elephants. Credit: INBAC/CLP/Panthera
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