Gabriella Santini

Starting to get in the festive mood? So are we!

Read our latest, where @gabriellasantini.bsky.social reflects on celebrating the festive season deep in Kenya’s Maasai rangelands, where the pulse of lion movements, community life, and holiday traditions come together🦁

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Maasai Mara’s indigenous forest is disappearing, with drastic consequences For the Maasai, Nyekweri forest has such a high ecological and socio-cultural value. But new conservancies aren’t working as best they could.

Why is tree cover disappearing in Nyekweri Forest, #MaasaiMara? I break down the reasons and effects in my latest piece for The Conversation. 🌳🇰🇪

Tonga women fonya basket fishing on a pan on the Pongholo Floodplain in KwaZuluy-Natal South Africa. It is a sustainable way of coexisting with improtant other life forms on this biodiverse wetlands system. Photo by Tony Pooley

My new perspective is out in Conservation Biology. I argue attempts to integrate emergent thinking on human–wildlife #coexistence into the #conservation mainstream bring us to a moment worthy of pause. Coex offers key new dimensions we shouldn't lose conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../10.../co...

Our review about the value of older animals appeared this weekend in the Age of Extinction series www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hi there -- my name is Gabriella. I'm a PhD student in Anthropology at UCL. I do research on people-lion dynamics in Kenya's Amboseli and Mara ecosystems. My aim is to learn from Maasai pastoralists' ecological knowledge to rethink predator conservation.

Send me a dm if you'd like to connect!