Behind foliage

Item Number: 6

Category: Photography

Retail Value: ZAR R5,000.00

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Description

This breathtaking photograph was captured by Andrew Rider, a long-time supporter and collaborator of Ingwe. Andrew’s image is more than just a beautiful wildlife shot—it perfectly encapsulates the patience, dedication, and persistent drive that fuels effective leopard conservation.

"It was our last day in Kruger, closing in on gate time, and we still hadn't seen a leopard," Andrew recounts. "I decided on one final sweep down the Timbavati road. Then, out of nowhere, a distinct white tail caught my eye. A very shy, skittish leopard crossed the road."

In the fleeting moments that followed, Andrew quickly raised his camera. Out of the hundreds of rapid-fire attempts, this was the only sharp image he captured—a ghost materializing then vanishing. "It took a lot of grit to finally find that leopard, and in the end, all the hard work paid off".

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Size: A2

Additional Information

Your investment directly supports our mission: To effectively conserve leopards in South Africa by empowering stakeholders through practical scientific recommendations, enabled by formal research, citizen science, novel technologies, and proactive collaboration.

Every bid fuels our most critical initiative: the Road Ecology Project, implementing life-saving mitigation measures against road mortality. It also enables the final deployment of the Ingwe Mobile App—the first AI-integrated citizen science tool for faster leopard identification—and helps grow our capacity for evidence-based conservation.