Beginnings

Greetings from Tanzania! I am very happy to make my first entry on the Carnivore Chronicle blog, a communication network of the People & Predators Fund. This is a very exciting time for us at PPF. We have just launched our new website at www.people-predators.org. For the website, I must thank Henry Karongo of Yale University. Henry is an outstanding student who has dedicated many tireless hours, day and night, over the last three weeks to give us our brand new look!

At PPF, we are having a very busy and productive summer, working with four wonderful Yale students in total. As I write, Christa Anderson is finishing up her data entries from her summer spent collecting livestock predation information with PPF’s Saruni Moses. Meanwhile, Heather Arrowood is negotiating a lift back to the Maasai village of Emboret where she is conducting research on local attitudes toward Tarangire National Park.

Charles, a.k.a. Buddy, and I will be sorry to say goodbye to Christa, Henry and Heather soon, as will our two great danes, Nandi and Scooby. But, I will at least see them in October when I am in the states. In the meantime, we are gearing up with Catherine Picard, a Yale doctoral student, to head to the remote lands of southern Tanzania where we will begin to investigate the scary accounts of lion attacks on humans. We will be gone for the entire month of August. I only hope I have internet access from time to time, so I can keep up with this new blog and share some of our experiences along the way!

- Laly