Speaker: Dr. Bridget Amulike
Visiting Instructor
Biology Department
State University of New York Potsdam
Will present a talk titled:
The Conservation of Grey Crowned Cranes (Balearica regulorum) in Tanzania
Dr. Bridget Amulike is currently a Visiting Faculty of Biology and a PRODiG Fellow at SUNY Potsdam. She recently received her PhD in Environmental Conservation with the focus on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst under the guidance of Dr. Todd K. Fuller and Dr. Curtice R. Griffin. She obtained her Master of Science degree in Wildlife Fisheries/ Biology from Frostburg State University in Maryland and a Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Wildlife Management from College of African Wildlife Management (CAWM) Mweka in Tanzania. Her research interests include wildlife population studies and distribution, as well as investigating the stressors endangering wildlife populations and their habitats. She is primarily interested in studying the species that have received little research and conservation attention in Africa. She is also interested in integrating local and indigenous people and their knowledge in her research and in solving conservation problems. She believes that wildlife conservation will never work without the involvement of local people. Her most recent research involved the study of Grey Crowned Cranes population in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. She also reviewed the international trade of grey crowned cranes, and determined their distribution, threats and the human attitudes towards the species in the four regions of Tanzania.
Date: 18 February 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: SC166
