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Professor Amy Dickman is the joint CEO of Lion Landscapes, an organisation which works key landscapes for lions and other carnivores. However, these areas also have an extremely high level of lion killing, as lions and other carnivores impose high costs on poverty-stricken local people. Amy will describe the complexity of this topic, and how Lion Landscapes is working with local communities to reduce carnivore attacks, provide villagers with real benefits from carnivore presence, engage warriors in conservation and train the next generation of local conservation leaders.
In this online talk, Amy will discuss the significance of this project, the difficulties of working in an area where witchcraft and mythology abound, the successes achieved so far, and the wider challenges of simplistic conservation narratives around divisive topic such as trophy hunting.
This lecture is part of the part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques programme at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford.
