Floris D'Udine MSc.
Organisation
Conservation Development Centre, Nairobi, KenyaField of expertise
Human-wildlife conflicts. Non-lethal human-carnivore conflict mitigation tools in East African unprotected rangelandsCountries
About
His main conservation interests include landscape scale conservation, cummunity conservation and human-wildlife conflicts, with a particular focus on human-carnivore conflicts and the livestock husbandry tools that can be used to mitigate them. His MSc dissertation was on non-lethal predator deterrents, and focused on the prospects for increased use of livestock guarding dogs in the unprotected rangelands of Central Kenya. It was titled “Perceived effectiveness of domestic dogs and other livestock husbandry tools in mitigating human-carnivore conflicts in the Salama-Kiu region, Kenya”.
I support the aims of LHNet because I feel that by focusing on large herbivores, which are often charismatic flagship as well as keystone and umbrella species, landscape-scale conservation can be promoted and essential ecosystem functions can be preserved.
Education: MSc Conservation (UCL 2009), Msci Environmental Geoscience (UCL 2008) and awarded a Distinction for theMSc dissertation.
My activities
Amongst others, Floris prepared vulture and carnivore species information for the LHNet webpages and also provided introductions on the large carnivores and vultures. Thank you so much, Floris! A huge task.
We are very pleased to announce that Floris currently found employement in a project that investigates the effect of human migration on nature conservation in Eastern Africa. We wish you good luck and all the best in your future career!