Can caracals survive in the city? The habitat of these lesser-known residents of the Cape Peninsula overlap with urban development, and there are less than 60 of these apex predators remaining. Crucial to their survival is understanding how people and caracals coexist. Gabriella Leighton is an ecologist at the Urban Caracal Project. Since they started in 2014, the research group has discovered that what harms this isolated population most is feeding on contaminated prey found close to urban areas, and collisions with motor vehicles. To prevent the latter, they’re collaborating with locals and using an unlikely method to create awareness about their presence in the city. Visit urbancaracal.org/support to learn more. Footage by Henk van Dyk, Kyle Green, Fenton Cotterill, Hilton Davis, John Hishin, Anya Adendorff, Loretta Purvis, Michael McSweeney, Hans Peter Neth, Anna Saifutdinova, Bryan Little, Jay Caboz, Nick Graves, Kris Marx, Nic van Droesburgh, Ian Merrington, Andrew Jenkins, Luke Nelson, Hana Petersen, and the Urban Caracal Project was used in the creation of this film.
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Bryan Ware
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Grant Gibbs
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