communities

Jun
21
Synopsis: our chapter on "Land Tenure, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Perspectives on Priorities in Tanzania’s Tarangire Ecosystem"

Synopsis: our chapter on "Land Tenure, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Perspectives on Priorities in Tanzania’s Tarangire Ecosystem"

We highlight approaches being taken in Tarangire which combine access to secure land rights with landscape scale access to resources that livestock (and wildlife) need to be productive and resilient.
4 min read
Mar
19
Compromise and collaboration - my experience writing our paper on "Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond"

Compromise and collaboration - my experience writing our paper on "Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond"

My favourite part of this paper was highlighting some of the systemic flaws in contemporary conservation and identifying some opportunities to restructure for greater resilience.
4 min read
Jan
27
Current Conservation Special Issue on African conservation today - our small contribution on livestock and wildlife

Current Conservation Special Issue on African conservation today - our small contribution on livestock and wildlife

Healthy rangelands for people and their livestock can mean healthy rangelands for all.
2 min read
Oct
27
Trophy hunting bans imperil biodiversity - a signatory's tale

Trophy hunting bans imperil biodiversity - a signatory's tale

A couple of years ago Amy Dickman and a few other colleagues circulated an idea they had to publish a
3 min read
Oct
22
Coexistence in an African pastoral landscape: Evidence that livestock and wildlife temporally partition water resources

Coexistence in an African pastoral landscape: Evidence that livestock and wildlife temporally partition water resources

Earlier this year (2021), research that we began several years back (2013) with James Allan was finally published in the
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May
04
Bringing back complex socio-ecological realities to the study of CBNRM impacts: a response to Lee and Bond (2018)

Bringing back complex socio-ecological realities to the study of CBNRM impacts: a response to Lee and Bond (2018)

This article was a response that Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein [https://www.unifr.ch/geo/humangeography/en/group/team/people/237861/
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Apr
28
What’s good for livestock can be good for wildlife

What’s good for livestock can be good for wildlife

This article was written by Dr. Peter Tyrrell [https://www.wildcru.org/members/peter-tyrrell/], Dr. David Western [http://www.davidjonahwesternconservation.
5 min read
Apr
26
Meet the ‘Irish Attenboroughs’ who answer call of the wild

Meet the ‘Irish Attenboroughs’ who answer call of the wild

This article, which features several passionate Irish conservation scientists, including me, was originally published in The Irish Times, by Jennifer
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Apr
26
Corpus Postgraduates: Resilience to drought in East Africa

Corpus Postgraduates: Resilience to drought in East Africa

This article was originally published in the University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College's The Letter, Michaelmas 2017, No.
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Apr
22
Turning the Tide Against Poaching: Lessons from Tanzania

Turning the Tide Against Poaching: Lessons from Tanzania

Originally published on November 17, 2016 in thecourant.org INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERThe global scale of the ongoing elephant poaching crisis is
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