Fenrick is Co-founder of the Tanzania Research and Conservation Organization (TRCO). Fenrick is currently doing MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) of Tanzania. His MSc project focus on the local communities perspectives in wildlife utilization in the Tanzania’s Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem. His expertise is generally based on the political ecology, hunting tourism, and natural resource governance.
Fenrick has completed a Bachelor of Tourism Management at SUA. After completion of his bachelor degree, he started as volunteer in 2015 for tourism and conservation related activities in the Serengeti National Park, and in 2016 he joined the Ruaha Carnivore Project as research assistant, and focused on the assessment of large carnivore ecology, evaluate and develop human-carnivore conflict mitigation strategies.
He has been involved in other research projects such as the assessment of the impacts of climate change to wildlife and tourism sector in the Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem; assessment of the impacts of livestock incursions in the western Ruaha National Park; and exploration of ethnozoological knowledge and attitude towards pangolins in the Tanzania’s Ruaha landscape.
