Savena — independent conservation science and photography from Latin America and Southern Africa

exploring living landscapes
through science and photography.

independent conservation work · latin america & southern africa

a personal initiative,
rooted in the field.

Savena is dedicated to ecological research and wildlife photography. The work combines fieldwork, remote sensing, and GIS to understand what's unfolding in these landscapes. Photography complements the scientific work in the field, bringing these remote places and their wildlife closer to people who may never experience them firsthand.

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latest
field note.

a night with lions

A storm rolling in, lightning over the plains, and almost an entire night alone with a pride of lions at a waterhole, on a trip to help count the Kgalagadi's lions.