Mr Harvey Seete - a scholarship student from Limpopo - is funded by the Mammal Research Institute, in collaboration with the BRO Trust - Oppenheimer Chair for Emerging African Scientists in Non-invasive Wildlife Research. Harvey is in his second year of a MSc degree in Zoology and is validating methods to non-invasively monitor stress in porcupines and hedgehogs using an established (faeces) and a novel (quills and spines) matrix.

Mr Bruce Crossey - a scholarship student - is funded by the Mammal Research Institute, in collaboration with the BRO Trust - Oppenheimer Chair for Emerging African Scientists in Non-invasive Wildlife Research. Bruce is in his second year of his PhD and is investigating the impact of safari-wildlife tourism activities on animal welfare, tourist perceptions and expectations of safari-wildlife operators, as well as the psycho-physiological impact of game viewing on guests engaging in game drives.

Dr Andrea Webster is a postdoctoral researcher with the Mammal Research Institute. In 2021 she completed her PhD in eco-toxicology and a short post-doctoral study which evaluated drivers of springbok and red hartebeest decline at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in the Northern Cape. Her current research aims to identify the role of scavenging carnivores on herbivore recruitment rates in the Kalahari using stable isotope analysis. Her research is co-funded by the University of Pretoria's Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme and the BRO Trust - Oppenheimer Chair for Emerging African Scientists in Non-invasive Wildlife Research.