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How Kalahari puff adders react to climate change may be key to their survival strategies

On a sunny Kalahari afternoon moments after landing at Tswalu Kalahari Wildlife Reserve, writer Brian Berkman had a chance meeting with Azraa Ebrahim and assumed she was another guest about to also begin her safari.

Assumptions were quickly corrected as Wits University doctoral candidate Ebrahim told Farmer's Weekly of her Tswalu Foundation-funded research into puff adder thermal biology and space use.

According to the Tswalu Foundation, the foundation stemmed from a vision that Jonathan and Jennifer Oppenheimer had to provide a means of both encouraging and facilitating environmental research at Tswalu Kalahari. In 2009, this vision became a reality when the foundation was created with seed money from the family being used as initial capital to fund various research projects on Tswalu. From its humble beginnings, the Tswalu Foundation has

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