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Gabriella Leighton, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University

Cape Town's caracals have metal pollutants in their blood -- an environmental red flag

A caracal monitored by the Urban Caracal Project, TMC33 Hermes, walks across a pipeline in Cape Town. Kris Marx

South Africa is urbanising rapidly. By 2050, eight in 10 people will live in urban areas, significantly increasing the demands on basic infrastructure development and associated services.

In the country’s Western Cape province, some 90% of the population is urbanised. Most of its residents live in the Cape Metropolitan Area. So it is truly remarkable that the city is still home to a population of between 60 and 100 wild caracals.

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