Week 2

Speaker: Dr. Christine Wilkinson

Harnessing intersectionality to understand human-wildlife interactions

Dr. Christine Wilkinson is a conservation biologist and carnivore ecologist, and is the co-founder of Black Mammalogists Week. Her research interests include human-wildlife conflict, carnivore movement ecology, multidisciplinary GIS, and using participatory methods for more effective and inclusive conservation outcomes. She has spent the last decade working in conservation biology and natural resource management around the USA and in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and has also served in various capacities as an informal educator. Christine’s current research focuses on social-ecological drivers of carnivore movement, conflict, and coexistence in the Bay Area and in Kenya.

Check out her website, https://scrappynaturalist.com/

Assigned reading

“The coyote in the mirror: Embracing intersectionality to improve human-wildlife interactions”: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(23)00059-4.pdf

“Examining drivers of divergence in recorded and perceived human-carnivore conflict hotspots by integrating participatory and ecological data”: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2021.681769/