Nadine Holmes
Peru
Director of Research - Hoja Nueva
Nadine has been serving as on-site carnivore researcher and general research coordinator to interns at Hoja Nueva since May of 2019. For some time, Nadine has been aspiring for a lifestyle and career in large carnivore management and conservation in a research setting. She is especially interested in the effects of human encroachment on carnivore habitats and mitigation of human wildlife conflict, and is intrigued by interdisciplinary exploration and resolution. Additionally, she is very interested in the ecology and behaviour of sympatric carnivores and their subsequent interactions, which is what lead her to Hoja Nueva. Through time spent in the field, she has become involved with interception of illegally acquired wildlife and education programmes aimed to combat such issues.
Before joining Hoja Nueva, Nadine received her BSc with Honours in Wildlife Conservation, in which time she studied spatial and temporal partitioning between Africa wild dogs, cheetah and lion as well as the diet of Brown Hyaena in the Limpopo province of South Africa in collaboration with the Primate and Predator Project. Nadine has most recently focused on camera trapping and analysing scat for feline diet research in the Lowland Peruvian Amazon. She is currently developing her own project on ecological guilds and mesopredators in the region, and is applying for a PhD in human-carnivore conflicts and solutions, with the aim of protecting small and large felines simultaneously with local, native communities.