Mzemba: A Life in Transit

Item Number: 12

Category: Photography

Retail Value: ZAR R5,500.00

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Donated By: Sharron Hoffman

Description

This captivating image was taken by Sharron Hoffmann, one of Ingwe’s highly dedicated citizen scientists and a regular contributor of crucial sighting data. It features Mzemba, a young male leopard whose story illustrates the precarious nature of dispersal.

Mzemba, whose name honors a dam on the Singita reserve, was born in 2020. Despite his relative youth, he is already navigating the complex and dangerous process of finding his own space. He is currently being sighted in the Sabi Sands, particularly around the Buffelshoek area.

Crucially, Mzemba has not yet managed to secure a territory. Young, dispersing males face intense competition and significant threats, making this a pivotal and high-risk phase of his life. Your support, through the auction, helps fund the research and capacity (like the Ingwe Mobile App) needed to monitor and understand the survival rates of these vulnerable young leopards as they seek to establish their place in the ecosystem.

Size: 500x500cm
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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.