Working with wild animals is a challenge. Therfore, a team of reliable and valuable specialists, non-professionals or enthusiasts is needed ….
Prof. Dr. Nina Farwig
Principal investigator (PI) and head of the Conservation Ecology group at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. She has been doing research in conservation ecology for several years during postdoc positions in Germany and the Switzerland. The research of her working group focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in anthropogenically used landscapes.
Dr. Dana Schabo
Dana is member of the Conservation Ecology group in Marburg, Germany. She combines enthusiastic field work, scientific and educational skills. Besides vultures, she is working on the impact of land-use on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in Poland and South Africa. She is keen on capturing and handling birds of various sizes. …
Mike Neethling
Mike is our local vulture expert at Oribi in South Africa. When it comes to his vultures, Mike drops everything and happily builds traps, downloads data or picks up dead animals. He has been monitoring our study colony for the last 15 years, and he runs a very successful vulture restaurant which supports the colony.Sascha Rösner
Christian Höfs
Selfie with Robin … © Christian Höfs
Christian is a Master student (Biodiversity and Conservation) at Marburg University and worked in different projects of the Conservation Ecology group. He is keen on ornithology (bird banding), environmental education and nature photography.
Andy Ruffle
© Christian Höfs
Andy is “the man in the hide”. He spends uncountable hours in the vulture viewing hide near the Oribi restaurant to observe the birds. There is hardly a single day in the week that he is not working with the vultures, guiding tourists, observing the birds, recording resightings from wing-tags, visiting other vulture restaurants…
Kim Lindner
Kim ist a Master student at Marburg University who joined the 2015 capture. Besides her interest for vultures, she is a passionate soccer player.
Theresa Spatz
Theresa Spatz
Theresa is also doing her Master’s (Conservation and Biodiversity) at Marburg University. She joined the vulture team in 2015 and actively supported our 2016 capture in South Africa.
The entire field work team … ! Rickert van der Westhuizen, Kerri Wolter, Walter Neser, Franziska Peter, Alex Canning, Max Mboyi, Ben Hoffman, Wandile Nkayitshan, Roger Uys, Sonja Krüger, Mike Neethling, Graham Grieve, Piet Massyne, Dana Berens, Glen Mclean, Morgan Pfeiffer, Sonja Heuner, Shannon Hoffman; missing: André Botha, Frik Lemmer.
