Hi, all! I'm a PhD student at Duke, working with Prof. Stuart Pimm to look at human-lion conflict related to livestock depredation in Africa south of the Sahara. We've been working on mapping likely predation hotspots for cattle, based on cattle densities & lion presence, but are looking to verify accuracy by collecting some point samples of predation pressure.
This leads us to look for the baseline predation rate -- the rate of livestock lost to predators' attacks on traditional (in other terms, "unfortified") bomas/kraals/livestock holding pens. Thus, if anyone has data on this for your working region, I'd very very much appreciate hearing from you! Best, Alexandra E. Sutton Doctoral Student, University Program in Ecology Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University (410) 608 5914 [mobile] aesutton [Skype] @aesutz [Twitter] [email protected] [Email]
