Researcher/Collaborator Coordinator of CNRS Partner WP 2 / 5
Hervé Fritz
What is your role/relationship in the project?
What are your expectations?
What excites you about 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.