The Shingwedzi Ghost

Item Number: 13

Category: Photography

Retail Value: ZAR R5,500.00

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Donated By: Sharron Hoffman

Description

This evocative photograph, captured by dedicated Ingwe citizen scientist Sharron Hoffmann, shows a powerful male leopard encountered in the wild heart of Kruger National Park.

Seen specifically around the Shingwedzi area, this male is, at present, unidentified and unnamed within our formal database. He represents the many uncatalogued individuals who roam the vast tracts of protected land, highlighting the sheer scale of the monitoring challenge faced by conservationists.

While leopards like Kusile and Dzaha are known to us through extensive monitoring, this male underscores the importance of citizen science and dedicated fieldwork. Your support for the auction directly contributes to scaling Ingwe's capacity—particularly through the deployment of our AI-integrated mobile app—to identify, name, and begin tracking these elusive, unknown individuals, turning a ghost into a conservation priority.

Size: 450x1000mm
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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.