After the issues of last week it's been good to have a couple of normal days in the field. Then again, normality around here right now means leopard attacks. The image is a camera trap checking me before I checked it this morning. This camera was just above a conflict zone where several sheep were killed a few nights ago. Later this morning I put in cameras in a steep bamboo jungle below another potential conflict zone where there is a goat herd.
There are so many issues surrounding human/wildlife conflict in this area. I now have an evening and a day tomorrow doing "laptop time" and catching up with everything before heading back into the field. I'll blog in more detail about what's going on before I leave.
There's a lot of walking. It's either up or down. There's no flat. It's steep, in places damn steep. I love it, moving through the mountains on foot is my favourite way of travel. But please spare a thought for some of the kids here, primary school kids, they have a five hour round trip each and every day to get to school and home again. Like I said it's steep. These tiny kids are the toughest tiny kids on earth. More soon...
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