Lameck Jacob

Background

About Lameck Jacob

My career objectives are to contribute my knowledge to Tanzania’s wildlife conservation, management and tourism. My intention is to work in the wildlife organization and community conservation sectors to participate in wildlife management, tourism, wildlife research also to educate and to provide interpretation on wildlife conservation and implementation of mitigation strategies to reduce the negative consequences of human wildlife conflict For more than three years in protected areas as research assistant with Serengeti Biodiversity Program at Serengeti Wildlife Research Centre (SWRC) under Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute ( TAWIRI) i have been conducting monthly wildlife transects which includes species identification and estimating age-sex rations of animals in order to know the diversity, distribution and abundance of animals; measuring vegetation cover to estimate change over time of the food resource for herbivores; setting and maintaining camera traps; maintaining and collecting automatic sensor for rain and rivers gauges; capturing, tracking and recovering GPS collared animals to assessing animal movement; collecting animal fecal sample material to determine gastrointestinal parasites during ecological movements within wildlife and livestock around protected areas; checking and maintaining insect traps for insect species identification; collecting taking pictures from photo points to assess long term vegetation dynamics. These activities contributed to the long-term ecological monitoring of the Serengeti-Ngorongoro ecosystem