Join South African novelist and photographer Tony Eprile (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) from his home in Vermont in conversation with CLAWS Botswana director, Dr. Andrew Stein, and biologist/tracker, Meghan Walla-Murphy (Nonfiction Alum), as they share their adventures and insights from working with animals such as lions and black bears. Learn first hand from researchers working with dangerous predators and communities that live alongside them how they are using a combination of new technology and indigenous wisdom to coexist.

Tony Eprile is a South African novelist and photographer who lives in Vermont. His novel, “The Persistence of Memory,” was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Dr. Andrew Stein has spent over two decades studying human–carnivore conflict across Africa, working with African wild dogs, lions, leopards, and hyenas in Kenya, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. 

For over 25 years, Meghan Walla-Murphy has had the good fortune of combining her passions of wildlife, ecology, and indigenous knowledge into work of conservation, advocacy, and outreach.