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Research updates

In 2019, the research team carried out one intensive monitoring session which
was aligned to the ongoing National Lion & Predator Survey.

During the intensive monitoring period which ran from 01 August - 31 October,
the team drove for a total of 8,952 km. 249 lion sightings and 89 cheetah
sightings were recorded across the Mara during the three-month period.

Through the use of the spatially-explicit capture recapture method MPCP was
able to gain insight into lion and cheetah densities. The latest figures indicate
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that the predator densities are 17 lions per 100km and 1.3 cheetahs per
2
100km in Mara.

Significant progress was
made on the wild dog
study. The research team
documented wild dogs
Lycaon pictus denning,
breeding and raising puppies
int he Mara.

MPCP received new predator
collaring permits and will be
collaring lions an wild dogs
in 2020 which will be a great
boost in their efforts to gain
more insight into predator
spatial ecology.

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