The Iona Skeleton Coast Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (TFCA), straddling the border between Angola and Namibia, has suffered through decades of civil war and poaching. While this history has been detrimental to the community of large mammals in the TFCA, data collected on the mammal populations are insufficient to enable effective management. Survey methods such as aerial counts and community-based monitoring have various shortcomings. Therefore camera trapping, which has become important in surveying wildlife worldwide, could become an essential monitoring tool