Dr. Courtney Hughes
Collaborator
Courtney (PhD, MEd, BSc, BEd) is a conservation scientist with expertise in human-wildlife conflict, community-based collaboration, conservation planning, policy development and evaluation, field-based assessments, and citizen science. Courtney is highly skilled in qualitative and participatory social science methods, facilitation, educational instruction and outreach, and curriculum design. Among other academic lectures, Courtney has been a visiting tutor at Oxford University’s WildCRU program for over a decade. In addition to working in Canada, Courtney’s has led or worked as part of a team on different conservation and livelihood projects across Belize, Cameroon, and Tanzania, and most recently in Zimbabwe. Courtney is a founding collaborator of the Tanzania Research and Conservation Organization (TRCO), and brings social science expertise to complex conservation challenges. Most recently, Courtney has co-led the exploration of the human dimensions of pangolin conservation, and collaborated with Micheal on assessing the impacts of resettlement in relation to lion conservation across the Ruaha landscape, as well as supported the investigation of call-back surveys as a means to provide a lion population estimate for the Ruaha National Park.
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Dr. Camille Warbington
Collaborator
Camille is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Edmonton, Canada. In collaboration with Dr Mark Boyce at the University of Alberta, she completed her PhD on sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) ecology in central Uganda. The sitatunga research project focused on methods to monitor populations and provide data to enhance management decisions for improving conservation including DNA analysis, camera trapping, community ecology of native wildlife and livestock, and incentives to local communities and private farmers to enhance sitatunga and wetland conservation in Uganda. Before her PhD studies, Camille worked for state and federal government in the USA, including as a Biologist Specialist with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and as a Biological Science Technician with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Savannah River, USA. Camille completed her MSc in Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, USA, assessing survival of white-tailed deer fawns. Camille extended her collaboration with the Tanzania Research and Conservation Organization (TRCO), and assessed the perceptions of local communities towards pangolins in central Tanzania, at the Ruaha landscape. Camile is an active scientist that published several articles related to sitatunga population estimates, environmental and organism interactions, and mortality of white-tailed deer.