Dr. Ozgun Emre Can
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Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of OxfordField of expertise
wildlife biologist, Turkish speciesSpecies
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About
Emre’s interests are in large carnivore monitoring and conservation. Since 1997, he has worked to better understand the status of all the large carnivores in Turkey (bears, wolves, hyaenas, and leopards).
He is leader of a team that is conducting the Human-Bear Conflict Project Project in Turkey. The team closely worked with the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the national wildlife authority within the framework of an official partnership on bear research and conservation. Together with the national wildlife authority, the team works to understand bear distribution and human-bear conflicts, and to create bear awareness and habitat restoration for bears across Turkey.
He worked as a carnivore biologist for WWF Turkey for six years and initiated WWF Turkey’s first conservation projects on carnivores. He then worked as Carnivore Research and Conservation Coordinator for Turkish Nature Association and started a program on carnivores.
He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Department of Zoology, University of Oxford on human-bear conflict but continue to be involved with various efforts and projects on large carnivores (and herbivores) in Turkey, in the Caucasus and in the Middle East region.
He is a member of IUCN Wolf, Cat, Hyaena, Canid, Deer Specialist Groups and member of Human-Bear Conflict Team of IUCN Bear Specialist Group. He is also an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Conservation Biology Europe Section and co-chair of South Asia Brown Bear Expert Team of IUCN Bear Specialist Group.
Ozgun Emre Can, WildCRU, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford