Fumi Mizutani

Fumi Mizutani, D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., studied veterinary medicine at Hokkaido University and worked for the scientific committee of WWF Japan before she went to study Tropical Resource Ecology at the University of Zimbabwe. Her specific subject was the reproductive success of foot-and-mouth disease virus-free semi-domesticated African buffaloes compared to that of wild herds. Following her growing interest in mixed livestock/wildlife systems and particularly on disease transmission between domestic stock and wildlife as well as livestock predation by carnivores as major conflict areas, she subsequently studied predators on a working ranch in Laikipia, Kenya. Under the guidance of the late Professor Peter Jewell at the University of Cambridge, she did her Ph.D. on the impacts of predation in wildlife and domestic stock. Since 1996, she has implemented the Lolldaiga Research Programme at Lolldaiga Hills Ranch, a beef-dairy working ranch in Kenya. Dr. Mizutani is also working as a livestock/wildlife consultant at the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute and the International Livestock Research Institute.