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Registration list: Symposium on animal movements & satellite tracking in Namibia (23-25 November 2016, Otjikoto Environmental Education Centre).

Presentation giving an overview of the history of cheetah tracking at CCF: then and now.

Presentation giving an overview of the ungulate movements in the Greater Sossusvlei Namib Landscape.

Presentation giving an overview of the lions moving out of Etosha National Park - reasons and consequences.

Presentation giving an overview of the livestock behaviour in an arid land farming system: a case study of Topnaar livestock production in the Namib Desert.

Conclusion: Track where there is a need; Track to change perceptions; Track to produce academic evidence to change perception and make better decisions - evidence based conservation; ZERO collar mortalities.

Much of this work was conducted under the auspices of the Flight Paths for Wetland Flagship Project: Tracking flagship wetland birds to identify areas outside protected areas for targetted conservation action.

Presentation giving an overview of tracking the split of crocodile sub populations.

Presentation giving an overview of Vulpro's work on tracking Vultures in southern Africa.

AfriCat North: Based SW Etosha; Operate around S-SW-W-NW Etosha on Communal and Commercial Farmland; HWC Mitigation - primarily concerned with lion.

Presentation giving an overview of the Spatial Movement Projects conducted by MET Wildlife Research since 2010. Piet Beytell - Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET).

Presentation giving an overview of the detection of birth and location of den sites in brown hyaenas (Parahyaena brunnea) based on GPS telemetry data. Inga Jänecke - Brown Hyaena Research Project.

To initiate and support the scientific and practical study of rare and endangered species in Namibia, especially developing and facilitating solutions to community, national and international problems with these species, while striving to maintain socio-ecological balance and biodiversity.

Presentation giving an overview of the tracking of threatened seabirds in the Namibian Islands' Marine Protected Area (and beyond). Jessica Kemper - Penguin Project, Lüderitz.

Presentation giving an overview of research of the Etosha Ecological Institute. Werner Kilian - Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET).

Home ranges and transboundary movement of Spotted hyaenas in the Zambezi region from satellite tracking and camera traps.

Presentation giving an overview of the thoughts, ideas and actions on the gathering of information on animal movements and satellite tracking in Namibia.

Presentation giving an overview of the movements of the Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, White-headed Vulture, Hooded Vulture ande Vulture. Pete Hancock - Retired (from BirdLife Botswana).

One of the discussion topics during the Symposium on Animal Movements and Satellite Tracking in Namibia was how to implement data sharing. Many projects are collecting tracking data and using it for one particular purpose only. If these datasets were available to other researchers, they could be of great value in investigating other issues, aspects of behaviour, interactions between predators and prey and so on. Movebank (www.movebank.org) is a potential option for achieving these aims.

Three studies: Why did sable antelope decrease in Kruger Park? (compared with zebra and buffalo); Why are there so few wildebeest in Kruger Park? (compared with zebra, buffalo and lions); How do gemsbok and wildebeest cope with extremes of temperature and aridity in the Kalahari? (still in progress). Norman Owen-Smith - Wits University, RSA.

Presentation giving an overview of the Kwando lion population, combined African wild dog collar data, Vulture tracks of two tagged animals. Ortwin Aschenborn - University of Namibia (UNAM) / Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET).

What is the EIS? Several components: a free, online information resource for Namibia. Essentially a search and retrieval system for data, (including databases, spatial data, literature and other resources). It currently includes 13,000 records, most of which have a downloadable file or a link to a website. Namibia has a surprisingly large amount of environmental information and data. However it can be difficult to access: difficult to know what information and data sets are available, where, who to contact, how cooperative they will be in releasing it etc.

Main objective: Using tracking data to inform conservation and management: What tag data is being collected? Spatial/temporal coverage, How can we use this tagging data to assist conservation and/or wildlife management? Ideal outcomes: Better collaboration, Understanding the current situation, Quantifying changes looking forward (either climate based or as a result of conservation-based activities), Identify possible funding avenues. Monique MacKenzie - CREEM, St. Andrews, Scotland and Norman Owen-Smith - Wits University, RSA.

Presentation giving an overview of assorted observations and ideas on animal movements. RAISON.

Operational objectives: Represent the environmental interests of Members; Act as a consultative forum for its Members; Engage with policy and law makers to improve the environmental policy setting in Namibia, as well as effective policy implementation; Build environmental skills in young Namibians; Support and advise its Members on environmental matters and best practices, and facilitate access to environmental information. Chris Brown - Namibian Chamber of Environment (NCE).