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Help us to purchase our new collaring and community engagement vehicle!
Thank you to all of the supporters of our hyenas and communities project over the past several years. We have been so excited to work alongside community members, scientists, conservationists, and the public to understand environmentally just avenues for human-carnivore coexistence. Building on this momentum, we are currently in the beginning stages of developing a
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How to de-collar a spotted hyena
De-collaring a hyena is a lot harder than collaring a hyena. As part of my long-overdue (thanks, covid!) visit to Kenya, I wanted to attempt to de-collar the spotted hyenas that I had outfitted with GPS-GSM collars in 2019. While the collars have proven invaluable for understanding hyena movement through a densely developing landscape, as
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Understanding Perceived and Verified Human-Carnivore Conflict
My first participatory mapping chapter (and 3rd out of 4 dissertation chapters) was recently published in Frontiers in Conservation Science! Essentially, we found that observed & perceived human-carnivore conflict are equally important for understanding the big picture, but they may be driven by different social & ecological processes. These different processes can contribute to and
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Explorer Academy Adventures!
I am pleased to announce that Mammals Week premieres this week, as one of eleven exciting weeks with Disney/National Geographic Explorer Academy Adventures! As a carnivore ecologist and a National Geographic Explorer, I’m appearing on a new interactive kid’s show and activity series called Explorer Academy Adventures, for our mammals-themed week. Explorer Academy Adventures features
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Life, uh, Finds a Way
In our recently published paper “Quantifying wildlife responses to conservation fencing in East Africa“, we developed a classification scheme to explore mammalian behaviors around the Lake Nakuru National Park boundary fence. At least 27 different mammal species cross in and out of the national park, and fence maintenance has inconclusive effects. In the words of
Christine E. Wilkinson, PhD 