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Wildlife Conservation Foundations

Doctoral work examines protecting wild species and the habitats sustaining them. Conservation addresses losses occurring faster than at any recorded time.

Conservation Biology Research

Research examines the scientific discipline underpinning species protection efforts. The field combines ecology with an explicit commitment to persistence.

Biodiversity Research

Doctoral study examines the variety of life across genes, species and ecosystems. Diversity measurement determines what conservation is actually protecting.

Species Concept Research

Research examines how species boundaries are defined and why that matters. Boundary decisions determine which populations receive legal protection.

Taxonomy Research

Doctoral work examines describing and naming the organisms requiring protection. Undescribed species cannot be protected by any legal instrument.

Systematics Research

Research examines evolutionary relationships among the species being conserved. Relationships guide which lineages carry the most distinct diversity.

Cryptic Species Research

Doctoral study examines distinct species indistinguishable by outward appearance. Cryptic diversity means threat assessments frequently understate risk.

Population Biology Research

Research examines how wild populations grow, shrink and persist over time. Population understanding underpins nearly every conservation decision.

Population Dynamics Research

Doctoral work examines the processes driving change in population size. Dynamics determine whether a population recovers or continues declining.

Demography Research

Research examines birth, death and age structure within wild populations. Demographic detail reveals which life stage limits population recovery.

Survival Estimation Research

Doctoral study examines estimating how long wild individuals actually live. Survival rates are the parameter most influencing population trajectory.

Reproduction Research

Research examines breeding success and its variation within wild populations. Reproductive failure explains declines that adult survival cannot.

Dispersal Research

Doctoral work examines individuals moving away from where they were born. Dispersal connects populations and permits recolonisation after loss.

Migration Research

Research examines seasonal long distance movement undertaken by many species. Migratory species require protection across their entire annual range.

Home Range Research

Doctoral study examines the area an individual uses during ordinary activity. Range size determines how large protected areas must actually be.

Habitat Selection Research

Research examines which environments animals choose to occupy and why. Selection knowledge identifies the habitat that protection must secure.

Habitat Quality Research

Doctoral work examines whether occupied habitat actually supports successful breeding. Occupancy alone can mislead where habitat has become a trap.

Resource Selection Research

Research examines animals choosing among available food, shelter and space. Selection modelling predicts where species will occur across landscapes.

Behavioural Ecology Research

Doctoral study examines behaviour shaped by ecological pressures and constraints. Behaviour determines how species respond to any human change.

Social Structure Research

Research examines how wild animals organise themselves into social groups. Social disruption harms species that removal counts entirely overlook.

Foraging Ecology Research

Doctoral work examines how animals find and consume their required food. Foraging needs determine what habitat can actually sustain populations.

Predator Prey Research

Research examines relationships between hunting species and those they consume. These relationships structure whole ecological communities profoundly.

Community Ecology Research

Doctoral study examines assemblages of species occurring together in places. Community perspective reveals consequences single species work misses.

Species Interaction Research

Research examines how species affect one another within shared environments. Interactions mean protecting one species can harm or help another.

Trophic Cascade Research

Doctoral work examines effects propagating through connected feeding relationships. Removing top predators reshapes ecosystems in far reaching ways.

Keystone Species Research

Research examines species whose influence far exceeds their actual abundance. Keystone loss triggers change disproportionate to numbers removed.

Ecosystem Function Research

Doctoral study examines processes that ecosystems perform and species sustain. Function loss may well precede any visible species disappearance.

Ecosystem Service Research

Research examines benefits that functioning ecosystems provide to people. Service framing supports arguments that intrinsic value alone cannot.

Landscape Ecology Research

Doctoral work examines spatial pattern across large areas shaping ecological process. Landscape perspective matches the scale at which threats operate.

Connectivity Research

Research examines whether habitat patches remain linked for moving animals. Connectivity permits populations to exchange individuals and genes.

Fragmentation Research

Doctoral study examines continuous habitat divided into separated remaining patches. Fragmentation harms species beyond the habitat area actually lost.

Edge Effect Research

Research examines conditions differing at boundaries between differing habitat types. Edge conditions penetrate far into the remaining habitat patches.

Metapopulation Research

Doctoral work examines connected local populations exchanging individuals between them. Connectivity determines whether local losses are eventually replaced.

Source Sink Research

Research examines productive populations sustaining others that cannot persist alone. Protecting sinks without sources achieves very little indeed.

Conservation Genetics Research

Doctoral study examines genetic considerations within species protection efforts. Genetic health determines whether small populations can persist.

Genetic Diversity Research

Research examines variation present within and between wild populations. Diversity supplies the raw material adaptation eventually requires.

Inbreeding Research

Doctoral work examines consequences of related individuals breeding together. Inbreeding reduces survival and reproduction within small populations.

Effective Population Research

Research examines the genetically meaningful size of a wild population. Effective size is usually far smaller than the counted individual number.

Gene Flow Research

Doctoral study examines genetic exchange between separated wild populations. Flow maintains diversity that isolated populations gradually lose.

Adaptive Potential Research

Research examines whether populations retain capacity to adapt to change. Adaptive capacity determines survival under rapidly shifting conditions.

Conservation Genomics Research

Doctoral work examines whole genome methods applied to species protection. Genomic data reveals detail that earlier genetic markers could not.

Environmental Dna Research

Research examines genetic material recovered from water, soil and the air. This approach detects species without ever observing any individual.

Phylogeography Research

Doctoral study examines how genetic lineages are distributed across geography. Lineage patterns identify populations warranting separate protection.

Hybridisation Research

Research examines interbreeding between distinct species or separate populations. Hybridisation threatens some species and rescues others entirely.

Local Adaptation Research

Doctoral work examines populations adapted to their particular local conditions. Local adaptation complicates moving animals between differing places.

Physiological Ecology Research

Research examines physiological limits determining where species can survive. Physiological tolerance predicts responses to changing conditions.

Stress Physiology Research

Doctoral study examines physiological responses to disturbance and adversity. Stress measures detect harm before population decline becomes visible.

Nutritional Ecology Research

Research examines nutritional requirements shaping habitat use and survival. Food quality matters as much as the quantity that is available.

Disease Ecology Research

Doctoral work examines infections circulating within wild animal populations. Disease has driven several documented extinctions in recent decades.

Wildlife Health Research

Research examines the health status of free living animal populations. Health surveillance detects emerging threats before they spread widely.

Wildlife Parasite Research

Doctoral study examines parasites within wild populations and their effects. Parasites are natural components and can become damaging under stress.

Emerging Disease Research

Research examines newly appearing infections threatening wild populations. Several emerging diseases have caused catastrophic species declines.

Wildlife Immunology Research

Doctoral work examines immune capability within free living animal populations. Immune variation explains why some populations survive outbreaks.

Wildlife Toxicology Research

Research examines harmful substances affecting free living animal populations. Toxic effects are frequently detected only after severe declines.

Contaminant Research

Doctoral study examines pollutants accumulating within wild animal body tissues. Accumulation is greatest within long lived predatory species.

Threat Assessment Research

Research examines identifying and ranking dangers facing wild populations. Assessment directs limited resources toward the most serious threats.

Extinction Risk Research

Doctoral work examines estimating how likely a species is to disappear. Risk estimates underpin listing decisions and protection priorities.

Red List Assessment Research

Research examines the criteria classifying species by their extinction risk. Listings drive funding, legal protection and wider public attention.

Population Decline Research

Doctoral study examines populations falling in number and why this occurs. Identifying causes is prerequisite for any effective intervention.

Habitat Loss Research

Research examines destruction of environments that wild species require. Habitat loss remains the dominant threat facing terrestrial species.

Deforestation Research

Doctoral work examines forest clearance and its consequences for wildlife. Forest loss concentrates within the most species rich world regions.

Land Conversion Research

Research examines natural habitat converted toward agricultural or built use. Conversion is driven by demand distant from the affected places.

Habitat Degradation Research

Doctoral study examines habitat persisting but declining in ecological quality. Degradation is harder to detect than outright habitat removal.

Overexploitation Research

Research examines species harvested faster than populations can replace themselves. Overharvest is the leading threat facing many marine species.

Hunting Research

Doctoral work examines wild animals taken for food, trade or sport. Hunting pressure varies enormously in its sustainability and regulation.

Bushmeat Research

Research examines wild meat harvested for subsistence and local trade. Wild meat sustains people and empties forests of their larger animals.

Fishing Impact Research

Doctoral study examines fisheries affecting target and surrounding marine species. Fishing has restructured marine ecosystems across whole oceans.

Bycatch Research

Research examines nontarget animals caught unintentionally during fishing operations. Bycatch is the principal threat facing many seabirds and turtles.

Illegal Trade Research

Doctoral work examines unlawful commerce in wild animals and their parts. Illegal trade is highly organised and extremely difficult to disrupt.

Poaching Research

Research examines unlawful killing of protected wild animal species. Poaching pressure responds to demand, poverty and enforcement capability.

Trafficking Network Research

Doctoral study examines organised routes moving wildlife products between countries. Network understanding directs enforcement toward critical points.

Demand Reduction Research

Research examines reducing consumer appetite for illegal wildlife products. Reducing demand addresses causes that enforcement alone simply cannot.

Invasive Species Research

Doctoral work examines introduced species establishing and spreading widely. Invasive species are a leading cause of documented island extinctions.

Invasion Impact Research

Research examines harm introduced species cause to native wildlife. Impacts include predation, competition and disease introduction together.

Invasive Management Research

Doctoral study examines controlling or removing established introduced species. Removal is expensive and occasionally achieves complete success.

Climate Change Impact

Research examines changing climate affecting wild species and their habitats. Climate impacts interact with every other threat that species face.

Range Shift Research

Doctoral work examines species distributions moving as climatic conditions change. Shifting ranges may leave existing protected areas behind entirely.

Phenology Research

Research examines seasonal timing of biological events shifting with climate. Timing mismatch between species disrupts established relationships.

Extreme Event Research

Doctoral study examines fires, storms and droughts affecting wild populations. Extreme events cause sudden losses that gradual change does not.

Sea Level Impact Research

Research examines rising seas eliminating coastal and island wildlife habitat. Low lying habitats and their species face permanent inundation.

Ocean Warming Research

Doctoral work examines rising sea temperature affecting marine wildlife populations. Warming drives both distribution shift and mass mortality events.

Ocean Acidification Research

Research examines changing seawater chemistry affecting marine organisms. Acidification particularly threatens species building calcium structures.

Pollution Impact Research

Doctoral study examines contamination harming wild populations and habitats. Pollution effects are frequently chronic rather than immediately lethal.

Plastic Pollution Research

Research examines plastic waste affecting wildlife across marine and land habitats. Plastic causes entanglement, ingestion and chemical exposure.

Chemical Pollution Research

Doctoral work examines industrial and agricultural chemicals reaching wild populations. Several chemicals caused documented collapses before being restricted.

Light Pollution Research

Research examines artificial illumination disrupting wildlife behaviour and navigation. Light disrupts migration, breeding and predator avoidance alike.

Noise Pollution Research

Doctoral study examines human generated sound affecting wild animal populations. Noise masks the communication that many species entirely depend upon.

Infrastructure Impact Research

Research examines built structures fragmenting habitat and killing wildlife. Infrastructure effects extend far beyond the land that it occupies.

Road Ecology Research

Doctoral work examines roads causing mortality and dividing wildlife populations. Roads both kill directly and prevent movement across landscapes.

Energy Development Impact

Research examines extraction and generation infrastructure affecting wild populations. Energy development frequently occurs within remote intact habitat.

Renewable Energy Impact

Doctoral study examines wind and solar installations affecting wildlife directly. Climate benefit and local wildlife harm require careful balancing.

Mining Impact Research

Research examines mineral extraction destroying and contaminating wildlife habitat. Mining pressure is rising sharply within remaining intact areas.

Agriculture Impact Research

Doctoral work examines farming systems affecting surrounding wild populations. Agricultural intensity determines how much wildlife farmland supports.

Livestock Interaction Research

Research examines domestic animals competing with and infecting wildlife. Livestock transmit disease and consume the forage wild species need.

Urbanisation Impact Research

Doctoral study examines expanding settlements affecting surrounding wild populations. Some species thrive in cities while most are entirely excluded.

Tourism Impact Research

Research examines wildlife tourism affecting the animals it comes to observe. Tourism funds protection and disturbs the species that it supports.

Disturbance Research

Doctoral work examines human presence changing wild animal behaviour and distribution. Disturbance effects occur well below any lethal threshold.

Cumulative Impact Research

Research examines many small pressures accumulating into substantial harm. Individual assessments consistently miss what accumulation produces.

Interacting Threat Research

Doctoral study examines threats amplifying one another beyond simple addition. Interaction means addressing single threats may achieve very little.

Extinction Debt Research

Research examines species doomed by past habitat loss but not yet gone. Debt means current diversity overstates what will eventually persist.

Defaunation Research

Doctoral work examines animals disappearing from habitats that still remain. Empty forests retain their trees and lose their ecological function.

Genetic Erosion Research

Research examines diversity lost as populations shrink and become isolated. Erosion continues silently long after numbers appear to stabilise.

Behavioural Change Research

Doctoral study examines wild behaviour shifting in response to human pressure. Behavioural change may mask decline until it becomes irreversible.

Range Contraction Research

Research examines species disappearing progressively from parts of their range. Contraction typically precedes decline in overall population numbers.

Local Extinction Research

Doctoral work examines populations vanishing from places they formerly occupied. Local losses accumulate into eventual complete species extinction.

Wildlife Monitoring Research

Research examines systematically tracking wild populations across time. Monitoring detects change while intervention remains genuinely possible.

Survey Design Research

Doctoral study examines designing field surveys that produce reliable estimates. Design determines whether any observed change can be detected.

Abundance Estimation Research

Research examines determining how many individuals a wild population contains. Counting wild animals is far harder than it initially appears.

Occupancy Modelling Research

Doctoral work examines estimating where species occur while accounting for detection. Occupancy methods separate absence from simple failure to detect.

Capture Recapture Research

Research examines estimating population size from repeated individual encounters. These methods underpin much of quantitative population monitoring.

Distance Sampling Research

Doctoral study examines estimating density using distances to observed animals. Distance methods correct for animals that observers cannot see.

Camera Trap Research

Research examines automatic cameras recording wildlife without any human presence. Camera surveys transformed monitoring of elusive terrestrial species.

Acoustic Monitoring Research

Doctoral work examines recorders capturing wildlife sound across long periods. Acoustic methods survey species that visual observation entirely misses.

Bioacoustic Analysis Research

Research examines extracting species and behaviour information from recorded sound. Automated analysis is essential given the recording volumes generated.

Telemetry Research

Doctoral study examines tracking individual animals using attached transmitting devices. Tracking reveals movement that direct observation cannot follow.

Satellite Tracking Research

Research examines following animals across continents using satellite systems. Satellite tracking revealed migrations nobody had previously suspected.

Biologging Research

Doctoral work examines attached devices recording animal physiology and environment. Logged data reveals behaviour occurring entirely out of sight.

Remote Sensing Research

Research examines satellite imagery mapping habitat and its ongoing change. Imagery covers areas that ground survey could never possibly reach.

Drone Survey Research

Doctoral study examines uncrewed aircraft surveying wildlife and their habitats. Aerial platforms reach areas inaccessible from the ground entirely.

Aerial Survey Research

Research examines counting wildlife from crewed aircraft across large areas. Aerial counting remains standard for large open habitat species.

Genetic Monitoring Research

Doctoral work examines tracking populations through genetic sampling over time. Genetic monitoring detects change that counting alone cannot reveal.

Citizen Science Research

Research examines public participation in recording wildlife observations. Public recording achieves coverage that professional survey cannot.

Indigenous Knowledge Research

Doctoral study examines knowledge held by peoples living alongside wildlife. This knowledge spans timescales that scientific records cannot match.

Long Term Monitoring Research

Research examines sustained observation continuing across decades of change. Long records reveal trends that short studies could never detect.

Machine Learning Applications

Doctoral work applies learned models across wildlife detection and prediction. Learned models require validation across differing regions and species.

Image Recognition Research

Research examines automated species identification from photographic survey images. Automation addresses volumes that manual review cannot handle.

Individual Identification Research

Doctoral study examines recognising particular animals from natural marking patterns. Individual recognition permits monitoring without any physical capture.

Model Validation Research

Research examines testing predictive models against independently collected data. Models developed in one region rarely transfer to another one.

Detection Probability Research

Doctoral work examines the chance of observing an animal that is present. Ignoring imperfect detection biases every abundance estimate produced.

Monitoring Data Quality

Research examines reliability of records gathered across differing survey efforts. Inconsistent effort creates apparent trends where none actually exist.

Protected Area Research

Doctoral study examines areas legally designated for conserving wild nature. Protected areas remain the principal instrument of species protection.

Reserve Design Research

Research examines deciding where and how large protected areas should be. Design determines what proportion of biodiversity is actually captured.

Systematic Planning Research

Doctoral work examines quantitative approaches to selecting protection priorities. Systematic methods achieve more protection for the same resources.

Marine Protected Area

Research examines designated ocean areas restricting extractive human activity. Marine protection lags far behind equivalent terrestrial coverage.

Wildlife Corridor Research

Doctoral study examines linking habitat patches to permit animal movement. Corridors maintain the connectivity that fragmentation would otherwise destroy.

Buffer Zone Research

Research examines transitional areas surrounding strictly protected core habitat. Buffers reduce edge pressure upon the protected core area.

Protected Area Management

Doctoral work examines how designated areas are actually managed in practice. Many designated areas receive no effective management whatsoever.

Ranger Research

Research examines field staff protecting wildlife within designated protected areas. Rangers face genuine danger and receive very limited support.

Enforcement Research

Doctoral study examines detecting and deterring unlawful activity affecting wildlife. Enforcement effectiveness varies enormously between differing settings.

Habitat Restoration Research

Research examines rebuilding degraded habitat for the species requiring it. Restoration is slow and rarely recovers original ecological complexity.

Rewilding Research

Doctoral work examines restoring ecological processes rather than fixed target states. Rewilding accepts uncertainty about the outcome that emerges.

Reintroduction Research

Research examines returning species to areas where they formerly occurred. Success requires removing whatever caused the original disappearance.

Translocation Research

Doctoral study examines moving wild animals deliberately between separate locations. Translocation carries risks of disease, stress and eventual failure.

Captive Breeding Research

Research examines breeding threatened species under controlled human care. Captive populations preserve species and adapt to captivity quickly.

Ex Situ Conservation Research

Doctoral work examines conserving species outside their natural wild habitat. External conservation buys time and cannot substitute for habitat.

Genetic Rescue Research

Research examines introducing individuals to restore diversity within inbred populations. Rescue has reversed decline within several documented cases.

Assisted Migration Research

Doctoral study examines deliberately moving species toward newly suitable areas. This intervention is contested because outcomes cannot be reversed.

Population Management Research

Research examines deliberately managing wild population size and structure. Management may aim to increase, reduce or simply stabilise numbers.

Population Reduction Research

Doctoral work examines deliberately reducing overabundant or introduced populations. Reduction is contested and sometimes necessary for wider protection.

Fertility Control Research

Research examines limiting reproduction to manage population size humanely. Fertility approaches avoid the objections that killing animals raises.

Supplementary Feeding Research

Doctoral study examines providing food to support struggling wild populations. Feeding sustains numbers and can create dependence and disease risk.

Nest Protection Research

Research examines safeguarding breeding sites from predation and disturbance. Protecting reproduction addresses the stage limiting many populations.

Wildlife Rehabilitation Research

Doctoral work examines treating injured wild animals for eventual release. Rehabilitation matters for welfare and rarely affects whole populations.

Veterinary Intervention Research

Research examines medical treatment applied to free living wild animals. Intervention is difficult and increasingly used for critically small populations.

Wildlife Disease Management

Doctoral study examines controlling infections within free living wild populations. Options are limited and interventions can cause further harm.

Biosecurity Research

Research examines preventing pathogens and invaders reaching vulnerable populations. Prevention is far cheaper than any subsequent removal attempt.

Eradication Research

Doctoral work examines removing introduced species entirely from an area. Island eradications have produced some striking conservation successes.

Species Recovery Planning

Research examines structured plans guiding the recovery of threatened species. Plans exist widely and are implemented rather inconsistently.

Intervention Evaluation Research

Doctoral study examines whether conservation actions actually achieved their aims. Most interventions are never evaluated in any rigorous manner.

Adaptive Management Research

Research examines management revised deliberately as new evidence accumulates. Adaptive approaches treat each action as a genuine experiment.

Human Wildlife Interaction

Doctoral work examines encounters between people and wild animals sharing landscapes. Interaction outcomes determine whether coexistence remains possible.

Coexistence Research

Research examines people and wildlife sharing the same working landscapes. Coexistence rather than separation is the reality across most regions.

Crop Damage Research

Doctoral study examines wild animals consuming and damaging cultivated crops. Damage falls upon the farmers who can least afford to absorb it.

Livestock Predation Research

Research examines wild predators killing domestic animals kept by people. Predation losses drive retaliatory killing of threatened predator species.

Compensation Scheme Research

Doctoral work examines payments to people suffering losses caused by wildlife. Schemes depend upon prompt payment and verifiable loss claims.

Mitigation Measure Research

Research examines practical measures reducing damage that wildlife causes. Effective mitigation reduces the retaliation that damage otherwise provokes.

Community Conservation Research

Doctoral study examines protection led by the communities living alongside wildlife. Local leadership sustains protection that external projects cannot.

Community Based Management

Research examines communities holding rights and responsibility for wildlife management. Devolved management can outperform centrally imposed arrangements.

Livelihood Research

Doctoral work examines how conservation affects how local people actually live. Protection that damages livelihoods rarely endures for very long.

Benefit Sharing Research

Research examines distributing gains from wildlife to surrounding communities. Sharing determines whether local people support protection at all.

Land Rights Research

Doctoral study examines ownership and access rights over land holding wildlife. Insecure rights discourage the long term stewardship protection needs.

Indigenous Governance Research

Research examines indigenous peoples governing territories that hold wildlife. Indigenous lands retain biodiversity at rates matching formal reserves.

Participation Research

Doctoral work examines involving affected people in conservation decision making. Participation quality varies from genuine sharing to mere consultation.

Attitude Research

Research examines what people actually think about wildlife and its protection. Attitudes predict tolerance and shape political support for measures.

Behaviour Change Research

Doctoral study examines changing human behaviour that harms wild populations. Behaviour change addresses causes that enforcement alone cannot reach.

Environmental Education Research

Research examines teaching that builds understanding and concern for wildlife. Education effects are long term and difficult to measure reliably.

Public Engagement Research

Doctoral work examines connecting wider publics with wildlife and its protection. Public support sustains the funding and policy protection requires.

Media Representation Research

Research examines how wildlife and threats are portrayed within media. Portrayal shapes public understanding and the priorities that follow.

Conservation Policy Research

Doctoral study examines government policy shaping how wildlife is protected. Policy determines the resources and powers protection can call upon.

Wildlife Legislation Research

Research examines laws protecting species and the habitats that they require. Legislation is only ever as effective as its eventual enforcement.

International Agreement Research

Doctoral work examines treaties committing countries to protect biodiversity. Agreements set targets that member states have repeatedly missed.

Trade Regulation Research

Research examines rules governing international commerce in wildlife products. Regulation constrains legal trade and shapes illegal trade routes.

Compliance Research

Doctoral study examines whether states and actors meet their protection obligations. Commitments are made readily and implemented rather unevenly.

Conservation Governance Research

Research examines who decides how wildlife and habitat are actually managed. Governance arrangements determine both legitimacy and eventual outcome.

Institutional Research

Doctoral work examines organisations delivering conservation and their capability. Institutional weakness undermines even well designed protection measures.

Conservation Finance Research

Research examines funding sources sustaining wildlife protection activity. Funding falls far short of what stated targets would actually require.

Payment For Services Research

Doctoral study examines paying landholders to maintain habitat and wildlife. Payment schemes align private incentives with public protection aims.

Cost Effectiveness Research

Research examines conservation benefit achieved relative to resources consumed. Comparison guides allocation where resources are severely limited.

Prioritisation Research

Doctoral work examines deciding which species and places to protect first. Prioritisation is unavoidable because resources cannot cover everything.

Conservation Triage Research

Research examines withholding effort from species unlikely to be saved. Triage is logically defensible and remains deeply contested ethically.

Conservation Ethics Research

Doctoral study examines ethical questions arising within wildlife protection work. Questions include intervention, welfare and whose values prevail.

Animal Welfare Research

Research examines the wellbeing of individual animals within conservation practice. Population aims and individual welfare frequently pull apart.

Conservation Justice Research

Doctoral work examines who bears costs and who receives protection benefits. Costs fall locally while benefits accrue globally and unevenly.

Global Inequality Research

Research examines biodiversity concentrated where financial resources are scarcest. Wealthy consumption drives loss occurring in far poorer countries.

Capacity Building Research

Doctoral study examines developing conservation capability within affected countries. Local capability sustains work that external projects cannot.

Conservation Workforce Research

Research examines the people delivering wildlife protection and their conditions. The workforce is underpaid, undersupported and frequently at risk.

Evidence Use Research

Doctoral work examines whether conservation decisions actually draw upon evidence. Decisions frequently rest upon experience rather than any evidence.

Research Practice Gap

Research examines distance between published findings and actual field practice. Researchers and practitioners remain largely disconnected communities.

Economic Evaluation Research

Doctoral study examines value delivered by investment in wildlife protection. Protection is inexpensive relative to the losses it actually prevents.

Implementation And Adoption

Research examines why conservation advances reach practice or fail to do so. Adoption depends upon local support as much as scientific merit.