We had the pleasure to host another guest speaker, Graden Froese, who is a PhD student at Duke University. Graden talked to us about his PhD work at Northeastern Gabon working in collaboration with the local communities on community-based bushmeat hunting management. He studies the social-ecological functioning and effectiveness of village-level participatory bushmeat hunting management through the Nsombou Abalghe-Dzal project, collaborating with 20 villages around the town of Makokou, Gabon. He has also studied the impacts of roads, villages, and agriculture on Sulawesi, Indonesia’s endemic mammals, the population dynamics of great apes in coastal Gabon, and avian ecology across elevational gradients in the Colombian Andes.
The link to the slides and recording are available here.