Graduate Research Assistant
Kimberly A. Winter, Warnell School of Forest Resources
Advisor
Dr. Michael J. Conroy, Georgia Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, D. B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia
This research involves estimating the abundance and distribution of selected wildlife found within the lowland forest-pampa-river landscape mosaic of the Itonama Indigenous Territory (ITT), Bolivia. Residents of the ITT are interested in developing a management plan to regulate extractive activities within the ITT. This project involves direct collaboration with local people and indigenous leaders to provide them with sound harvest management information concerning their wildlife and fish. Preliminary fieldwork reveals that residents concentrate their hunting and fishing efforts on approximately 15 species of mammals, 20 birds, and 30 fish. Future research (scheduled for February-November of 1999) will focus on harvest frequency and distributions of locally significant prey resources, and will provide the data necessary for creation of sustainable harvest models.
Funding
Fulbright Study Abroad Graduate Fellowship
Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, University of Georgia