CARACAL Center for African Resources: Animals, Communities and Land use
CARACAL is a not-for-profit NGO located in Northern Botswana [https://www.caracal.info/]. CARACAL is an acronym that stands for Center for African Resources: Animals, Communities, and Land use. CARACAL was established in 2001 by Kathleen A. Alexander (DVM/PhD) and Mark Joos Vandewalle (PhD). This NGO engages in research, outreach, and education with a focus on improving the livelihoods of communities in Chobe District.[1]. The NGO also provides emergency care and rescue of wildlife and maintains a wide array of species at their facilities used for education purposes[2] CARACAL is affiliated with Virginia Tech, College of Natural Resources, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation through Dr. Alexander's academic appointment in 2007. She is now a professor of wildlife conservation[3]. The research portfolio of the NGO is broad and engages the One Health Approach with a diverse record of publications primarily authored by Alexander and others in the NGO as well as collaborators[4]. The work of the NGO is funded primarily through research grants awarded to Virginia Tech from the National Science Foundation through Alexander who is the principle investigator as noted in the acknowledgements of published papers[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "CARACAL Home Page". CARACAL Home Page. October 18, 2018.
- ↑ "CARACAL Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation".
- ↑ "Faculty web page". October 18, 2018.
- ↑ "Kathleen A. Alexander Google Scholar Page".
- ↑ "Kathleen A. Alexander Google Scholar".
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