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MEMBERS OF OUR ADVISORY BOARD

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Brennan Peterson Wood

SPECIALIST FOR HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT

Brennan first visited East Africa on a study abroad program in Karatu, Tanzania and quickly developed a passion for African wildlife and conservation. After completing his degree in biology and ecology, he returned to Tanzania to work for an elephant conservation project in Ruaha national park. Following that, he worked for Conservation Research Africa for four years, first as a research assistant in Kasungu national park and then as programs manager, overseeing both carnivore and bat research and conservation efforts across Malawi. He now works for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a human-wildlife conflict specialist, working to mitigate wolf-livestock and general human-wildlife conflict in northern California. With over 10 years of experience in wildlife conservation and research, Brennan maintains a strong passion for African wildlife and applying research findings to the many complex threats facing wildlife, habitats, and the people who share the landscape.

Brennan was the former program manager of Carnivore Research Malawi, Urban-Hyena-Lilongwe

Arjun Deehr

WILDLIFE SCIENTIST/ HYENA SPECIALIST

Arjun, with over a decade of wildlife research experience in eastern and southern Africa, is the Red List Authority for the IUCN SSC Hyaena Specialist Group, a National Geographic Explorer, and a member of the SCB Africa Chapter.

His journey began in 2012 in northern Tanzania while on an undergraduate study abroad program. After finishing university, he worked for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and then the Brown Hyena Research Project in Namibia. In 2015-2016, he completed his master’s research focused on resource partitioning between spotted hyenas and lions in the Lewa-Borana Landscape, Kenya. In 2017, he began his PhD at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, focused on human-carnivore conflict and the responses of spotted hyenas to anthropogenic change in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. He will defend his PhD later in 2023.

Arjun will be the Field Operations Manager for the Ngorongoro Hyena Project

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