MODISA

Yesterday afternoon we arrived at Modisa Conservation Project. Modisa was started in 2010 on a 10,000 hectare wildlife farm located next to Central Kalahari Game Reserve with a mission of combatting declining lion populations in Botswana. Modisa runs a volunteer camp and takes care of "problem" predators, including lions, leopards, and African wild dogs, which have been captured due to human-wildlife conflicts. Val also raised a lioness, Sirga, by hand after she was abandoned by her mother. She is now three and a half years old. The word modisa translates to shephard in Setswana.

Yesterday, we witnessed some of the lions and wild dogs that Modisa looks after. Afterwards, we drove over to Sirga´s enclosure, where we got to see Val play with her and feed her.

Val speaking to the group this afternoon on human-wildlife conflict in Botswana.

A female lioness gazing back at us.

An older male up close.

Getting to see Val interact with Sirga is pretty dang cool.

This morning, Daryl took us on a walk through the property. 

Playing some volleyball as the sun goes down.