[APES Jobs] Fwd: SAWMA FW: [Canids-L]: Post-Doc opportunity in Botswana

Tue Apr 1 10:45:27 SAST 2014

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Subject: 	SAWMA FW: [Canids-L]: Post-Doc opportunity in Botswana
Date: 	Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:35:34 +0200
From: 	Elma Marais - SAWMA <elma at mweb.co.za>
Reply-To: 	<elma at mweb.co.za>
To: 	<sawma at googlegroups.com>
CC: 	<hannes at sabinet.co.za>

Dear all,
*_Post doc opportunity - illegal hunting and the illegal bushmeat trade 
in the Okavango Delta of Botswana_*

Panthera and the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust are looking for a 
post doc student to undertake an assessment of the scale, impacts and 
drivers of the illegal bushmeat trade in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

The illegal bushmeat trade is emerging as a severe threat to wildlife 
populations in the savanna biome of Africa, including in southern 
Africa. Wildlife populations in northern Botswana have declined steeply 
in recent years. While the causes of the decline are not clear, 
indications are that illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade are 
potentially important contributing factors. However, little is known 
about the scale and impacts of the threat, and as a result, insufficient 
effort is made to control illegal hunting for meat, and when illegal 
hunters are caught they are rarely prosecuted.

A key first step to addressing this problem is to assess the scale and 
impacts of the problem, and to understand how the bushmeat trade works. 
This will provide a much stronger basis with which to lobby key 
stakeholders to intervene, and act as a basis from which to design 
conservation interventions. We propose a post doc study into illegal 
hunting and the bushmeat trade in the Okavango Delta and adjacent 
regions of northern Botswana.

The illegal bushmeat trade is emerging as a severe threat to wildlife 
populations in the savanna biome of Africa, including in southern 
Africa. Survey results indicate several wildlife species' populations in 
northern Botswana have declined steeply in recent years. While the 
causes of declines are not clear, indications are that illegal hunting 
and the bushmeat trade are potentially important contributing factors. 
However, little is known about the scale and impacts of illegal hunting 
for meat and little effort is made to control it.

We seek a strong candidate (PhD qualified and having published in peer 
reviewed journals) with academic and field experience with wildlife or 
natural resource management, ideally in Africa. The project will require 
working with people from broadly diverse environments, from rural 
villages to urban commercial centers. Strong people skills are 
essential. The successful candidate will be able to work under 
challenging conditions in remote areas with people from diverse cultural 
and socioeconomic backgrounds.  Attributes of the successful candidate 
include an ability to assemble and manage a small team of local field 
assistants to acquire the information necessary to quantify this 
important but hidden activity. Experience with questionnaire survey work 
(quantitative social sciences) would be considered a bonus.

We are able to offer a salary of USD2,500 per month for a period of one 
year (though ideally the post doc would also apply for a post doc 
position at a university which would then free up those funds to add to 
those for field work). There would be scope for expanding the study into 
a second year, though the student would need to apply for a post doc 
bursary from a university to do so (we would be able to assist with this 
process and establish linkages with local institutions).

Interested candidates should send an email of enquiry to Dr Peter 
Lindsey (plindsey at panthera.org <mailto:plindsey at panthera.org>) and Dr 
Tico McNutt (predatorconservation at gmail.com 
<mailto:predatorconservation at gmail.com>).

Regards,

Elma

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Elma Marais

Secretariat: Southern African Wildlife Management Association (SAWMA)

Editorial assistant: /South African Journal of Wildlife Research///

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