People, Livestock, and Carnivores: Social Dimensions of Coexistence in Northern Tanzania

The AREA Lab has been awarded a 2025 Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to explore the social dimensions of human-carnivore coexistence in northern Tanzania. The People, Livestock, and Carnivores (PLACE) project was designed through use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods with the intention of empowering local pastoralists and integrating their lived experiences, ways of knowing, and local ecological knowledge into the conduct of human-carnivore interaction research. Research findings will generate key insights into the social factors that allow people and large carnivores to share landscapes, with significant implications for the human-carnivore interface in rural localities around the world.