by Susan Miller | May 7, 2025
On 29 April 2025, armed insurgents attacked the Mariri Environmental Centre in Mozambique’s Niassa Special Reserve, resulting in the tragic loss of two anti-poaching scouts, Domingos Daude and Fernando Paolo Wirsone (please see statement from the Niassa Carnivore...
by Susan Miller | Apr 27, 2025
In a new study from the Honeyguide Research Project, we are excited to present evidence that honeyguides occasionally guide humans to non-bee animals. Our research – which builds on centuries of reports by a wide variety of human cultures across Africa – shows how the...
by Susan Miller | Feb 7, 2025
Lailat Guta and Jessica van der Wal returned to the Niassa Special Reserve, to visit our long-term collaborators in the Mbamba honey-hunting community and at Mariri Environmental Centre. As part of Lailat’s MSc research on the relationship between honey-hunting and...
by Susan Miller | Feb 2, 2025
Our new study quantifies what honeyguides contribute to honey-hunters in the Reserva Especial do Niassa in northern Moçambique. In collaboration with Celestino Dauda, Horácio Murico, Colleen Begg, Keith Begg and Agostinho Jorge of the Niassa Carnivore Project, we...
by Susan Miller | Feb 16, 2024
The Honey-hunting Research Network (coordinated by Jessica van der Wal) met in Cape Town for a very enjoyable week of analysing and comparing interview data from honey-hunting cultures across Africa, painting a picture of the human cultural variation relevant to...