conservation | Stephanie M. Dloniak

January 8, 2016

“Ongoing lion declines across most of Africa warrant urgent action”

Filed under: Carnivores,human wildlife conflict,kenya,lions,news,publications,wildlife — Tags: african wildlife, carnivores, conservation, lion, lions — Stephanie Dloniak @ 3:05 pm

I am a coauthor of a letter recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in response to criticism of an earlier paper that cited some of my data on lion numbers in the Masai Mara National Reserve. Hopefully this letter clarifies any questions and helps underscore just how important appropriate conservation actions are for the future of the species. A big thanks to my coauthors for including me! Here is the letter and I am happy to provide the earlier paper upon request:

PNAS_Reply_Bauer_et_al_2015

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March 6, 2013

Conserving large carnivores: Dollars and fence

Filed under: blog,Carnivores,human wildlife conflict,kenya,news,publications,Science Writing,wildlife — Tags: africa, conservation, fence, kenya, lion, wildlife — Stephanie Dloniak @ 9:47 am

My guest blog post on lion conservation is up at Scientific American! I write about how data I collected in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve in 2005 were combined with lion count data from more than 40 other sites on the continent to test hypotheses about management options and conditions affect lions. The data were published today in the journal Ecology Letters.

Here is the blog post and here is the abstract of the scientific paper. I am happy to email a pdf of the paper to anyone who needs a copy, just contact me through the website.

Collecting data on lions in the Maara in 2005.

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