Madikwe has a pale leopard called ‘Sepoko’ meaning ghost.
The Leopard Conservation Project is currently looking for images and videos of this very rare African predator. If you work in, or have ever visited, the Madikwe Game Reserve and have any images of the pale male that gets seen around the western parts of the reserve you might be able to not only assist the Leopard Conservation Project but also win some great prizes.
Here are a few images of the pale male, Sepoko, that lives in Madikwe.
Below is an email I recently received from Michelle from the Leopard Conservation Project.
“I work with a conservation effort, the Leopard Conservation Project, www.leopardcon.co.za, we came across a leopard similar to the pale one at Madikwe, sadly this one had been hit by a car and did not survive, since then we have been focusing a lot of our research on this variation of leopard. So far this tells us that there are only about 4 of these magnificent animals in the world. There may be more, but there have been no reports.
We are running a competition to publish 2 books, 1 for the Pale Leopards, and different variations of leopard, and one for the White Lions of Timbavati, we are working with Linda Tucker on this.”
If you have any images of the Madikwe pale leopard you can email them to the details above.
If you have any questions or comments please give me a shout!
Gerry
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Hi Gerry
Thank you so much for posting this. Due to the interest from the artists that we have had, we are extending this deadline to the 30 April 2010. Please all submit as many images as possible.
Thank you for your help in this!
With great roars of thanks!
Michele
I am a wildlife photographer base in West Africa. I can travel to northeren cross river to take shots of this leopard for your organisation. Are you still interested?? Please contact me directly.