Amy Dickman

Amelia Jane Dickman is Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of WildCRU at the University of Oxford,[1] Kaplan Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford[2] and joint CEO of Lion Landscapes.[3] She is best known for her leadership of the Ruaha Carnivore Project, seeking to improve conservation outcomes for lions and other carnivores in the Ruaha National Park of Tanzania.[4] She is known for her views on the importance of scientific and local community input into discussions around the continued importance of trophy hunting for the conservation of African landscapes.[5][6][7]

Education

Dickman completed her undergraduate education at the University of Liverpool in zoology. On graduation she joined WildCRU to work on cheetahs in Namibia before undertaking an M.Sc. on the determinants of human-carnivore conflict in Tanzania, for which she was awarded a distinction.[8] She continued related work at University College London and the Zoological Society of London on a project supervised by Prof. Sarah Durant & Prof. Katharine Homewood, being awarded in her Ph.D. in 2009 for a thesis entitled "Key determinants of conflict between people and wildlife, particularly large carnivores, around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania".[9]

Career

After completing her PhD, Dickman returned to WildCRU in 2009, on a five year Kaplan Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford. She founded the Ruaha Carnivore Project during this period, and most recently Lion Landscapes.[10] She is a founder member of Pride Lion Alliance.[11] She is a National Geographic Explorer.[12] Since 2001 she has been a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission's Cat Specialist Group[13] and African Lion Working Group.[14] She is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology[15] and has published over 90 peer-reviewed research papers, primarily on carnivore behaviour and conservation.[16]

Honours and awards

She was also a finalist for the 2014 Tusk Conservation Award[20]

References
  1. "Amy Dickman Director of WildCRU". Department of Biology, University of Oxford.
  2. Ingram, Simon (31 January 2020). "Single white woman living tent studying lions". National Geographic. National Geographic. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  3. "Lion Landscapes about us". Lion Landscapes.
  4. Calkin, Jessamy. "Why this British Woman is Fighting to Save African Lions from Extinction'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  5. "Celebrity power undermining global conservation". The Guardian. 15 January 2021.
  6. "Why trophy hunting helps protect animals". The Economist.
  7. "The complex issue of big game hunting". The Guardian.
  8. "Professor Amy Dickman". Pembroke College, Oxford. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  9. Dickman, A. J. (March 2009). Key determinants of conflict between people and wildlife, particularly large carnivores, around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania. UCL Library (Doctoral). Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  10. "Lion Landscapes about us". Lion Landscapes.
  11. "Lion Pride Aliance: Who we are". Pride Lion Aliance. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  12. "Amy Dickman National Geographic Explorer". National Geographic Explorers.
  13. "IUCN Cat Specialist Group Members: Amy Dickman". IUCN Cat Specialist Group.
  14. "African Lion Working Group Members".
  15. "Welcome to our new associate editors 2019". British Ecological Society. 21 January 2019.
  16. "Google Scholar Profile Amy Dickman". Google Scholar. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  17. "November 2011 newsletter" (PDF). Panthera.org.
  18. "Awards 2016". Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  19. "Cincinnati Zoo Awards citation". Cincinnati Zoo. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  20. "Tusk Award Finalist 2014 Amy Dickman". Tusk. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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