Yesterday’s Guardian had this interesting story of a young fellow’s innovation (click the image above to go to the full account):

In the decadent days when Theodore Roosevelt and British royals led African hunting expeditions, they had to rely on local trackers, patience and luck in their quest to bag “the big five”.

Today’s tourists, armed with cameras instead of guns, still find timing is everything when scanning the savannah for buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.

However, A 16-year-old schoolboy has found a hi-tech solution. Nadav Ossendryver’s website, Kruger Sightings, provides real-time updates on wildlife sightings in South Africa‘s world famous Kruger national park.

“Leopard feeding in tree”, said one post on Monday. “3 wild dogs” read another. “2 male lions 4km south of lower Sabie across river bank”, noted a third.

Ossendryver has taken a familiar concept, crowdsourcing, and transposed it to an African setting.