As a keystone species, we humans need to safeguard other powerful animals while protecting the safety and livelihoods of local communities. Learn first hand from researchers working with dangerous predators and communities that live alongside them how they are using a combination of new technology and indigenous wisdom to coexist.
Join South African novelist and photographer Tony Eprile from his home in Vermont in conversation with CLAWS Botswana director, Dr. Andrew Stein, and biologist/tracker, Meghan Walla-Murphy, as they share their adventures and insights from working with animals such as lions and black bears.
Tony Eprile is a South African novelist and photographer who lives in Vermont. His novel, "The Persistence of Memory," was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Andrew has spent over two decades studying human–carnivore conflict across Africa, working with African wild dogs, lions, leopards, and hyenas in Kenya, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
For over 25 years, Meghan has had the good fortune of combining her passions of wildlife, ecology, and indigenous knowledge into work of conservation, advocacy, and outreach.
