Student Highlight: Samina Amin Charoo

摘要

After Samina completed her Bachelor of Science degree, she earned a Master's in wildlife sciences studying the Indian hare (Lepus nigricollis nigricollis). She then spent a year studying the common leopard in Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujurat (a state in western India) for the Indian government's Department of Science and Technology. In 2007, she began work on the ecology of Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) for the Wildlife Institute of India. Her study area included Dachigam National Park and a few other adjacent protected areas, Jammu and Kashmir (the northernmost state of India), which is known to have a high density of black bears. Before this study there had been only a very few field-based studies on black bears in India. Presently she is pursuing her Ph.D. on black bears at the University of Saurashtra, Rajkot, India and her main interests are population estimation, habitat utilization and bear-human interactions.