HONGO Shun
The HAKUBI Center/ Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies／Program-specific Senior Lecturer
Field of Research：Conservation science, Wildlife management, Primate ecology
Shun Hongo earned his PhD from Kyoto University in 2016 and worked as a researcher at Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and as an expert for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He now joins a bilateral collaborative project between Cameroon and Japan. To establish a sustainable management system of wild mammals—an essential source of food and income for rural people in the Congo Basin—he seeks to integrate scientific methods such as camera trapping and practical knowledge of indigenous and local people.
Received awards include Best paper award, Primate Society of Japan (2015), Poster presentation award, The Mammal Society of Japan (2017).
Activity Databased on Education and Research, Kyoto University:
https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/profile_private/en.d718e39e481d2837.html
Personal Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/shunhongo/home
Papers published:
Link: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14257
Title: Predicting bushmeat biomass from species composition captured by camera traps: Implications for locally based wildlife monitoring
Published: 26 August, 2022
Author: Shun Hongo, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Etienne François Akomo-Okoue, Fred Loïque Mindonga-Nguelet
Link: https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/103/1/159/6438960
Title: Seasonality in daily movement patterns of mandrills revealed by combining direct tracking and camera traps
Published: 25 November, 2021
Author: Shun Hongo, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Etienne François Akomo-Okoue, Fred Loïque Mindonga-Nguelet