Description

Residents of Hoedspruit might have followed reports of leopard sightings in the town’s residential wildlife estates over the years, as these elusive cats have moved through neighbourhoods and coexisted with humans under the cover of darkness. I, Owen Gröbler, moved to the Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate (HWE) in 2018 and a fascination with these ‘peri-urban’ leopards took my life in a new direction. December 2021 signals the three-year mark in my journey monitoring, studying and photographing the leopards of HWE, and in that time I have identified 10 different leopards moving in and out of the estate. This book illustrates this journey of Searching for Spots on HWE.