This week has been a week of progress which feels wonderful. I am getting used to dealing in African time which means I celebrate the smallest victories and the tiny steps forward and this week there have been a number.

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I have just signed on a co-supervisor to the project, Dr Martine Maron, who is from the Geography, Planning and Environmental Management School so Martine will bring a fresh perspective to the project. Martine has been to, and immensely enjoyed Etosha, so I can only imagine that is one of the positives of working on this project!

I am also moving along at a great speed on my crowd funding campaign on Pozible. Thanks to the generosity of my friends, family, colleagues and the wider community I have reach $460 for contributions. I have a target of $2,000 to make before the deadline in April. If you’d like to help out visit www.pozible.com/eatwithoutbeingeaten to make a pledge or even just send an email to friends and family or post on facebook to get the word out there! Your support is greatly appreciated.

This week, many of my targets for sponsorship in the corporate community should have received my amazing brochures that the team at Heaneys Printing designed, printed and mailed for me, see below. Heaneys even cut a wildebeest out of the cover! Their ongoing sponsorship is greatly appreciated. Now I must cross my fingers and toes and perhaps even my eyes in the hope that there are businesses that feel passionately about the environment and are willing to make a contribution.

Finally, I have received an email confirming that my ethics application has been accepted. In other words the UQ Animal Ethics Committee is content that my proposed methods will not cause any undue harm to the wildebeest, so I have been given the go ahead to put those methods into action.

And that about rounds out my week of little victories…