Anna Kusler
USA and Zambia
Doctoral Graduate Researcher, Cheetah Conservation
Anna Kusler is a doctoral graduate researcher and the site co-manager for the Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) in Kafue National Park, Zambia. Her dissertation is a collaboration between ZCP, Panthera, Montana State University, and the Rangewide Conservation Program for Cheetah, and examines the connectivity, demography, and conservation of cheetahs in the KAZA landscape of southern Africa, with an emphasis on the Greater Kafue and Greater Liuwa ecosystems. Before joining ZCP, Anna studied mountain lions in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of northwestern Wyoming. Her MSc, a collaboration between Panthera and Pace University, examined mountain lion spatial ecology and home range selection. Before that, Anna received her BSc in Natural Resources and Applied Ecology from Cornell University, during which time she studied cheetahs in Botswana, bats and deer in New England, and sea turtles in Costa Rica. Outside of bush life, Anna is an avid dancer, a passionate mountaineer, and is incredibly fond of garlic bread.