Fikirte Gebresenbet Erda, Ph.D. student. Major advisor: Monica Papes. Large carnivores and applied conservation and management of wildlife.   MSc, 2008, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Post-grad Dipl., 2010, Oxford University, UK. Email: fikirte.erda@okstate.edu

Specific Interests

I am generally interested in understanding and solving challenges in wildlife conservation through: community based wildlife conservation, applied conservation and management of wildlife and environmental education. My research focuses on priority setting for carnivore conservation in southern Ethiopia through scenario analysis and GIS modeling.

Publications

• Gebresenbet F, Daniel W, Bauer H, and Haile A (in press) Governance: for effective and efficient conservation in Ethiopia. In: Conservation Biology: Lessons from the Tropics. (Eds. Navjot SS and Raven PH) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

• Gower DJ, Aberra RK, Schwaller S, Largen MJ, Collen B, Spawls S, Menegon M, Zimkus BM, de Sá, RO, Mengistu AA, Gebresenbet F, Moore RD, Saber SA and Loader SP (in press) Long-term data for endemic frog genera reveal potential conservation crisis in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Oryx.