Graduate Research


​My graduate Thesis, The effects of human/wildlife conflict on the potential for community-based ecotourism in the Kasigau region of southeast Kenya, was completed in conjunction with, The African Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. This collaborative effort involved students and faculty from the University of Nairobi and Western Kentucky University from the disciplines of ecology, molecular biology, conservation, political science, sociology, anthropology, journalism and business.

​Acknowledgements
Capacity-Building in around Mt. Kasigau

Presentations and Posters

Mountjoy, N. J., A look at community-based conservation efforts in southeast Kenya: The importance of human dimensions in wildlife conservation. Invited speaker, International Program, Owensboro Community and Technical College, Owensboro, KY, February 11, 2008.
 
Graduate Thesis: The effects of human/wildlife conflict on the potential for community-based ecotourism in the Kasigau region of southeast Kenya, completed in conjunction with The African Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Presented by Natalie Jones Mountjoy, Thesis Defense, Western Kentucky University, 2008.

Jones (Mountjoy), Natalie; Daday, Gerhard; Stokes, Michael; and Kimwele, Charles. Questioning conservation: social surveys in conservation biology as tools to determine the potential for community-based ecotourism efforts. Presented by Natalie Jones at the International Conference of the Society for Conservation Biology, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2007. 

Jones (Mountjoy), Natalie; Smith, Bradley; Kimwele, Charles; Stokes, Michael; and McElroy, D. Assessing bushmeat availability in Kenya’s rural and urban markets. Presented by Natalie Jones at the Annual American Society of Mammalogists Conference, University of Massachusetts, MA, 2006.

Jones (Mountjoy), Natalie; Kimwele, Charles; Stokes, Michael; Harnish, Allison. Assessing Community attitudes, snaring and bushmeat prevalence in the Tsavo region of Kenya. Presented by Natalie Jones at the Annual Kentucky Academy of Science Conference at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, 2005