Cats, Cows and Communities: Conserving Carnivores in Tanzania’s Ruaha Landscape –  Amy Dickman
Channel: Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Date: 2019-03-19

Amy Dickman, Oxford University presents Cats, Cows and Communities: Conserving Carnivores in Tanzania’s Ruaha Landscape and Beyond

In 2009 Dr. Amy Dickman founded The Ruaha Carnivore Project which aims to reduce the extremely high levels of lion killing in this region of East Africa, and she still directs the project today.  In her talk she will discuss the challenges and successes of this inspiring work which focuses upon reducing human-carnivore conﬂict by engaging with local communities and providing tangible beneﬁts from carnivore presence.

This presentation was for the Human Wildlife Interactions seminar, a joint seminar series between the Departments of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University.

Human Wildlife Interactions is part of the Frontiers of Conservation Social Science Seminar Series, which runs during every spring semester.

Amy is the Kaplan Senior Research Fellow in Felid Conservation at Oxford University, and has 20 years experience working on large carnivores in Africa, specialising in human-carnivore conflict. She has an MSc from Oxford University and a PhD from University College London, and has published over 60 scientific papers and book chapters on large carnivore ecology and conservation. She is a member of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group, the Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration, the African Lion Working Group, the IUCN Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, and is a National Geographic Explorer. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Rabinowitz-Kaplan Prize for the Next Generation in Wild Cat Conservation, the St Louis Zoo Conservation Award and the Cincinnati Zoo Wildlife Conservation Award.