Researcher/Collaborator Coordinator of CNRS Partner WP 2 / 5

Hervé Fritz

What is your role/relationship in the project?
  • Lead CNRS partner coordinator Field station and Hwange LTSER coordinator
  • Researcher in project, mostly in W1 and W2, and obviously W4
  • Director of SA-based IRL REHABS to promote regional synergies

What are your expectations?
  • improved understanding of coexistence at the edge of Hwange NP
  • better integration of the protected areas in people livelihoods in a climate change context
  • linking movement ecology, resource ecology, disease ecology and social-ecological functioning
  • training of Zimbabwean students in interdisciplinary research

What excites you about the project?
  • new ways to investigate the interface of the protected area
  • tests of reconciliation ecology principles
  • new ways to promote community engagement
  • an influx of new partners and collaboration in the Hwange LTSER
  • securing long-term collaboration between RP-PCP, Hwnage LTSER and IRL-REHABS
What are your fear related to the project?
  • socio-political contextnot conducives to developactivities
Main  publications for the project :
  • Ferry et al. 2016. J.Anim.Ecol
  • Guerbois & Fritz 2017. Ecosyst. Serv.
  • Tshipa et al. 2018. Biol. Cons. Valls-Fox et al. 2018. Anim. Cons.
  • Blanco et al. 2020. Global Change Biol.