Update from our Malawi expedition volunteering with elephants, hippo, cats, pangolins and African biodiversity
Camera traps are a vital tool in our data collection efforts. Vwaza has many species that we see during the day and we can record from our own visual observations. But at night the forest and lakeside are teeming with life that we would not necessarily pick up.Â
The expedition team set up 25 camera traps and serviced them halfway through the expedition. Some were unsuccessful – a stray branch can trigger the motion sensor and we had one knocked off by a passing elephant. The others provided some exciting photos of porcupine, cape hare, civet and serval appear. No big cats yet.
This is an update from our Malawi volunteer expedition. You can find an overview of all our current expeditions here.