This presentation will share how Tibetan Buddhist monks consider the interactions between people and large carnivores on the Tibetan Plateau and compare it with the mainstream conservationist thinking.
Paper long abstract:
Yufang Gao is a Ph.D. candidate in wildlife conservation and environmental anthropology at Yale University. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Peking University and an M.S. in Environmental Science from Yale. He has worked as a conservation practitioner for several international, national and local NGOs on a variety of conservation projects related to large carnivore conservation. He has also researched the illicit trade in elephant ivory in Africa and Asia. His dissertation research looks into human-carnivore coexistence on the Tibetan Plateau. Khenpo Tashi Sangpo Ju is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and the founder of Nyanpo Yutse Conservation Association, a local grassroots NGO dedicated to wildlife conservation.