Identify wildlife to help scientists understand the diversity and dynamics of wildlife populations across Africa! 

Snapshot Safari

Research

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**Mark Keith** 
*PhD, Lecturer at Eugene Marais Chair of Wildlife Management, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria.* 
Mark is a small and medium African mammal expert and savanna ecologist. He gets particularly batty about how species and communities are influenced by land-use change and management decisions. He has research projects in the grain basket of South Africa, in the depths and surrounds of the Meletse Cave (Limpopo), in the Okavango Delta and Gobabeb dessert, in the peri-urban wildlands of eastern Gauteng, and in the Pilanesberg volcanic crater. His research is regularly collaborative, working with virologists and taxonomists on bats and rodents, with toxicologists on the uptake of various pollutants in ecological systems (from plants to insects to mammals), and with the agriculture sector on understanding rodent and carnivore population dynamics. He also occasionally dabbles in research on spatial behavioural dynamics of marine mammals in marine ecosystems facing human-driven change. 

**Michael Somers**
Professor at Eugene Marais Chair of Wildlife Management, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria. 

**Henry van Lelyveld**
MSc student at  Eugene Marais Chair of Wildlife Management

**Abongile Ndzungu**
Endocrine Research Laboratory (ERL), Mammal Research Institute technician;  part time MSc student  University Pretoria


Team

Education

Results

Help researchers as they survey the incredible biodiversity of Pilanesberg National Park, nestled between the Kalahari and the Lowveld in South Africa!

Snapshot Pilanesberg

The Team

Pilanesberg Team



Mark Keith
PhD, Lecturer at Eugene Marais Chair of Wildlife Management, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria.
Mark is a small and medium African mammal expert and savanna ecologist. He gets particularly batty about how species and communities are influenced by land-use change and management decisions. He has research projects in the grain basket of South Africa, in the depths and surrounds of the Meletse Cave (Limpopo), in the Okavango Delta and Gobabeb dessert, in the peri-urban wildlands of eastern Gauteng, and in the Pilanesberg volcanic crater. His research is regularly collaborative, working with virologists and taxonomists on bats and rodents, with toxicologists on the uptake of various pollutants in ecological systems (from plants to insects to mammals), and with the agriculture sector on understanding rodent and carnivore population dynamics. He also occasionally dabbles in research on spatial behavioural dynamics of marine mammals in marine ecosystems facing human-driven change.