After several months of project groundwork and preparation, we went out to three baboon-visited areas to test our data collection approach and the survey that we have developed. We decided to test our set-up in Zwaanswyk, Ocean View, and Simon’s Town because we wanted to be exposed to a diversity of potential challenges that we can expect in different areas. It is important for us to familiarise ourselves with those at this stage of the study to be better prepared for the actual data collection. In each area, one member of the research team went door-to-door and collected survey responses from 4-5 households, with assistance from a local resident. We learned a lot from this testing round and we will now take some time to fine-tune the survey, sampling methodology and technical functionality of the survey software. Once this is done we will start scaling up the data collection. For now, we would like to thank all residents who contributed to the pilot study!
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