“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

	Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Research Fields	I have conducted research on the diverse relationships between people and wildlife in forest areas in the southeastern part of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. With focus on latent potential on forest and wildlife conservation, which the traditional landscape of the communities based on shifting agriculture has maintained, I am studying conservation ecology of inhabitant animals, analyzing the composition and causes of traditionally conserved forest, and attempting to grasp the future vision of residents’ conservation plans.
Main Works	Yamakoshi G. Leblan V. (2013) Conflicts between indigenous and scientific concepts of landscape management for wildlife conservation: Human-chimpanzee politics of coexistence at Bossou, Guinea. Revue de Primatologie (on line), 5: document 6. DOI : 10.4000/primatologie.1762 Bonimy, S.P., Yamakoshi G. (2012) Dictionnaire d’Apprentissage Maawe (Manon)-Française: Mots, Dialogues, et Expressions Courantes. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue 44: 1-59. Yamakoshi G (2011) The “prehistory” before 1976: Looking back on three decades of research on Bossou chimpanzees. In: The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba (T. Matsuzawa, T Humle, Y. Sugiyama, eds.). Springer, Tokyo, pp. 35-44.

Gen Yamakoshi