Sabita Gurung

About

Sabita Gurung is a wildlife biologist born in an indigenous Gurung community of Ghanpokhara in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. She has an M.Sc. in Zoology (Ecology and Environment) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and a PGD in International Wildlife Conservation Practice from WildCRU, University of Oxford, UK. She has worked with a wide range of wildlife including amphibians, birds (specially Barn owl), diverse small mamals (bats, rodents, pangolins), primates, ecosystem diversity survey at landscape scale covering Chitwan-Annapurna Lanscape and trans-himalayan habitats in Humla focusing on coexistence with Himalayan wolves. Her special interest is in studying predator-prey dynamics, human-wildlife conflict, and human dimensions in nature conservation and sustainable co-existence.

Employment

• Himalayan Wolves Project, Himalayan Carnivore Foundation Project Officer
  2021 - Present
• Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation Research Officer
  2017 - 2019
• Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation Project Officer
  2016 - 2016

Education

• University of Oxford PGD
  2020 - 2020
• Tribhuvan University M.Sc.
  2012 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• Nepal’s high-altitude wildernesses & wildlife are increasingly under threat (commentary)
  Mongabay 2026 DOI: 10.66709/news-329285
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• A decade of fluctuations: Long-term monitoring reveals a marked decline in Kiang populations in an unprotected high-altitude landscape
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7380719
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• Comparing Activity Patterns of the Himalayan Wolf with Himalayan Marmots and Kiangs in a High-Altitude Landscape
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6209493
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• Silent predators: Revealing the parasites of Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster) in Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal
  International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2025.101119
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• New insights into the geographical distribution of brown bears Ursus arctos in Nepal
  Oryx 2025 DOI: 10.1017/S0030605324000796
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• Predicting the potential distribution and habitat variables associated with pangolins in Nepal
  Global Ecology and Conservation 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01049
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• Do masquerading of snail poop enhance the protective value of sawfly caterpillars?
  56th Annual Meeting of the Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) - 2019, Antananarivo, Madagascar 2019
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• Ecology and conservation of forest birds
  by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom 2018
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• The Status of Nepal’s Birds: The National Red List Series (2016)
  Zoological Society of London, UK 2016
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• Bagmati River Expedition 2015: A baseline study along the length of the Bagmati River in Nepal to gather data on physical, chemical, and biological indicators of water quality and pollution; and document human-river interaction
  Nepal River Conservation Trust, Nepal and Biosphere Association, Kathmandu, Nepal 2015
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