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A place to ask WE management questions.
Many of you have questions that you would like answered. WE have a way for you to ask the presenters questions by emailing Final Control (finalcontrol@wildearth.tv) The director chooses which questions to ask and reads them to the presenter. However, sometimes the questions are a little difficult for the presenter to answer or they have nothing to do with what is happening on the screen. This is the place to ask those sorts of questions of the WildEarth management.
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Permalink Reply by RavenLunatic on -
yes you did get my e-mail as you responded 2 hours ago and I have just responded to you in kind. We are passing each other thru the net it seems.
I have answered all of your questions and hope this is resolved soon.
yes I have it sent for approval because of the past issue.
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Permalink Reply by blueeyedlibra on -
Graham........why is the cam being put on the little dried up pan when the dam is full of water? Does that camera not work? Thanks
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did I miss an announcement that this site is open to everyone and that you don't need a membership to see things like video and pictures and websites anymore?
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Apparently you did, CarolJ........This from June 15 Announcements.
WE Ning has been opened to non-members BUT all of our Member's personal area's, as in Members Pages and Blogs, have now been changed to members only.
Only certain areas will be accessible as a non-member, such as Groups, Forums, Databases, Photos and Videos.
Your My Pages and Blogs as well as the Chat room, will remain Member only.
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Permalink Reply by Ex-centric on -
Wondering why my feed for WE is so poor. I can watch Pete's pond and all the other cams with no problem. Just WE stopping a LOT ...thanks for any suggestions.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Braat on -
One reason could be that those feeds originate in the US, while our feed is streamed from Europe and that transatlantic bottlenecks cause this difference.
Ex-centric said:Wondering why my feed for WE is so poor. I can watch Pete's pond and all the other cams with no problem. Just WE stopping a LOT ...thanks for any suggestions.
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Thanks Pete. I'll just wait and see if it straightens itself out.
Peter Braat said:One reason could be that those feeds originate in the US, while our feed is streamed from Europe and that transatlantic bottlenecks cause this difference.
Ex-centric said:Wondering why my feed for WE is so poor. I can watch Pete's pond and all the other cams with no problem. Just WE stopping a LOT ...thanks for any suggestions.
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?????? or Peter Braat, Pieter, Lieschen, Hermon, Patrick, Marc
blueeyedlibra said:Graham........why is the cam being put on the little dried up pan when the dam is full of water? Does that camera not work? Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Ex-centric on
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The bottleneck seems to have worked it's way out of the area. All is good now.
Ex-centric said:Thanks Pete. I'll just wait and see if it straightens itself out.
Peter Braat said:One reason could be that those feeds originate in the US, while our feed is streamed from Europe and that transatlantic bottlenecks cause this difference.
Ex-centric said:Wondering why my feed for WE is so poor. I can watch Pete's pond and all the other cams with no problem. Just WE stopping a LOT ...thanks for any suggestions.
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It would be great if someone could get the pump fixed and pump some water back into the little pan so we could have some night viewing too. The camera on the dam can't pick up anything at night, unfortunately.
Cyndi
blueeyedlibra said:?????? or Peter Braat, Pieter, Lieschen, Hermon, Patrick, Marc
blueeyedlibra said:Graham........why is the cam being put on the little dried up pan when the dam is full of water? Does that camera not work? Thanks
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the original post was almost 2 weeks ago. How is it that some get answered quickly and some dont? Just looking for an answer.
Cyndi said:It would be great if someone could get the pump fixed and pump some water back into the little pan so we could have some night viewing too. The camera on the dam can't pick up anything at night, unfortunately.
Cyndi
blueeyedlibra said:?????? or Peter Braat, Pieter, Lieschen, Hermon, Patrick, Marc
blueeyedlibra said:Graham........why is the cam being put on the little dried up pan when the dam is full of water? Does that camera not work? Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Peter Braat on
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Hi,
Sorry for the delay. We've all been very busy (and I've been on leave ;-). The reason for sometimes not putting the cam on the dam at night is the distance to the IR lights, which makes that a very blurry picture. The solution is to move the cam and lights to a position that gives us a decent view of an area where animals might come at night.
When I get back to Djuma towards the end of next week, WE'll start working on that.
blueeyedlibra said:the original post was almost 2 weeks ago. How is it that some get answered quickly and some dont? Just looking for an answer.
Cyndi said:It would be great if someone could get the pump fixed and pump some water back into the little pan so we could have some night viewing too. The camera on the dam can't pick up anything at night, unfortunately.
Cyndi
blueeyedlibra said:?????? or Peter Braat, Pieter, Lieschen, Hermon, Patrick, Marc
blueeyedlibra said:Graham........why is the cam being put on the little dried up pan when the dam is full of water? Does that camera not work? Thanks
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UK tour raises some great questions
Some great questions have been raised by University students during my recent lecture tour in the UK, which have focused our thoughts on the direction of the ILP for the next years. Sure, we’re growing rapidly but it’s important to ensure that we focus on our core aims first and foremost. The object of our research is to gather data on the density and behaviour of leopards (and other carnivores) outside of formally protected areas. And why? Well it is in these areas (the largest land mass of South Africa) that leopards are in conflict with humans and in these areas where they are the last of the big five remaining truly wild.
So how can we conserve the dwindling leopard population. As said, first we need data, but also we need to develop wildlife management methods and techniques. Within this we need to become more than a pure research project and tackle some of the other issues. Education is undoubtedly a major factor. We need to get the message across in the right way. But we also need to develop and employ pragmatic management solutions. We will need a holding facility to temporarily detain problem animals, sufficient to give us time to ensure that any relocation does not compromise the genetic dynamics of an area and importantly that we do not create a problem in that area. Whether that be with local livestock, people, or other leopards.
All of this will mean we need more staff. Dedicated people who have a passion for wildlife conservation. We’ll also need more funding. But here is where we can offer something a little different. We want to create an ILP membership scheme (say$8 annual fee). However rather then just ask for a membership fee, in return we want to offer something more than a badge or membership card. Membership will then entitle folks to a 10% discount off an African Conservation Safari. As with everything we do, we look to our friends to give us their input and feedback, so if you have any thoughts on this concept then I'd love to hear from you.
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Honey Badgers - You have to love them
Finally we have some news on our Honey Badger project. As you may know we have been holding two troublesome honey badgers, that were killing Geese on a farm and removed before they could get into even deeper trouble. Of-course we have been waiting for permits but (in this case), that is no bad thing. It has provided time for the badgers to loose their homing instinct to that farm (otherwise they would just head home and into more trouble). It's also given us time to arrange for tracking equipment. In this regard, we took lots of advice from badger specialists before deciding on a two pronged approach to tracking these animals that roam in very large areas.
Firstly, one of the badgers had a radio transceiver implant yesterday (unobtrusive low range device placed under the skin by a vet), and second they will each be given VHF collars before release. Of-course with such tenacious animals the collars won't last long before the badgers have destroyed and discarded them, but by that time we hope to have logged their new home range and have an idea of where to find them. Thereafter the implant (which has only a small range) will help us to monitor the badgers for the next year or so and gather much needed data on Honey Badgers living outside of formally protected area's. You've heard it before, but these are the area's where all carnivores at the biggest and imminent risk from human conflict. So we very much hope that these two will be only the first of many, so that our study results can hep formulate pragmatic conservation policies.
For now, the badgers will be monitored at Moholoholo wildlife rehabilitation centre for another twelve days and then we'll release them into a wild area. Where we hope they'll stay out of trouble. Yea I know, fat chance of that. Badgers just seem to look for trouble. I have to be honest, it's why I love them.
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