Gino Rivera Bulnes

Fellowship Year: 
2023
Degree: 
MESc
Research Country: 
Peru
Research Continent: 
South America
Abstract: 

Understanding how the nature of humanwildlife interactions among local human communities and wildlife across landscapes is shaped by social complexities is valuable to identify potential conflict hotspots and guide mitigation efforts. This study aims to examine how farming systems impact humancarnivore interactions in an arid Peruvian landscape by asking: How are the interactions between humans and carnivores spatially distributed in an agricultural landscape? What would that say about the distribution of impacts among recipients? To do so, an occupancy model will be built for the Ica Valley agricultural landscape using both camera trap and survey methodologies. Answering these questions will provide an understanding of spatial variation in human-carnivore interactions to help inform carnivore conservation within this landscape.