Charlotte E. Searle, Ph.D

Senior Ecologist & Data Specialist, Panthera Tanzania

Charlotte Searle first came to Tanzania in 2018 to carry out camera trap surveys in the Ruaha-Rungwa landscape for her Ph.D. research with the University of Oxford's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU). Her research focused on leopard ecology across East and Southern Africa.

After completing her Ph.D., Charlotte joined NGO Lion Landscapes to lead a landscape-wide large carnivore assessment in southern Tanzania’s Selous-Nyerere landscape. The project had two primary goals: improving our understanding of the ecosystem's lion, leopard, African wild dog, and spotted hyaena populations, and building carnivore conservation capacity among management staff. This work was followed by efforts to establish a long-term monitoring program in the landscape with Frankfurt Zoological Society, including large-scale camera trap surveys and GPS collaring of lions and wild dogs.

In 2026, Charlotte joined Panthera as Senior Ecologist & Data Specialist for the Tanzania Program, where she leads wildlife and threats monitoring to help inform conservation activities across the western Tanzania conservation landscape.