A5101988180- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Plant and animal studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Water resources management and optimization
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Zoological Society of London
2011-2022
University of Technology Sydney
2022
University of Exeter
2016-2020
Conservation Leadership Programme
2014-2015
University of Cambridge
2014-2015
Operation Wallacea
2013-2015
Imperial College London
2008-2011
Ministry of Health
2010
University of Georgia
2000
Acadia University
1983
Abstract Alternative livelihood project (ALP) is a widely used term for interventions that aim to reduce the prevalence of activities deemed be environmentally damaging by substituting them with lower impact provide at least equivalent benefits. ALPs are implemented in conservation, but 2012, an International Union Conservation Nature resolution called critical review such projects based on concern their effectiveness was unproven. We focused conceptual design considering underlying...
Abstract Background Alternative livelihood projects are used by a variety of organisations as tool for achieving biodiversity conservation. However, despite characterising many conservation approaches, very little is known about what impacts (if any) alternative have had on conservation, well determines the relative success or failure these interventions. Reflecting this concern, Motion 145 was passed at Vth IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2012 calling critical review and their...
Abstract Aim Understanding the spatial ecology of animal movements is a critical element in conserving long‐lived, highly mobile marine species. Analyzing networks developed from six sea turtle species reveals connectivity and can help prioritize conservation efforts. Location Global. Methods We collated telemetry data 1235 individuals reviewed literature to determine our dataset's representativeness. used develop at different scales examine areas, connections, their geographic arrangement....
Abstract: Alternative occupations are frequently promoted as a means to reduce the number of people exploiting declining fisheries. However, there is little evidence that alternative fisher numbers. Seaweed farming lucrative occupation for artisanal fishers in Southeast Asia. We examined how introduction seaweed has affected village‐level changes on Danajon Bank, central Philippines, where unsustainable fishing led fishery yields. To determine numbers had changed since started, we...
Free or subsidised mosquito net (MN) distribution has been an increasingly important tool in efforts to combat malaria recent decades throughout the developing world, making great strides towards eradicating this hugely detrimental disease. However, there increasing concern natural resource management and healthcare communities over alternative use of MNs, particularly artisanal fisheries where it suggested they pose a threat sustainability fish stocks. So far, little evidence presented as...
The value of no-take marine reserves as fisheries-management tools is controversial, particularly in high-poverty areas where human populations depend heavily on fish a source protein. Spillover, the net export adult fish, one mechanism by which may have positive influence adjacent fisheries. Spillover can contribute to poverty alleviation, although its effect modulated number fishermen and fishing intensity. In this study, we quantify effects community-managed reserve high area Northern...
Abstract Widespread, anecdotal reports of the use bed nets designed for malaria control (“mosquito nets”) in artisanal fisheries have led to concern from health and natural resource management sectors. However, mosquito net fishing (MNF) may play an important role livelihoods fishers, aspect not yet investigated. At a coastal Kenyan site among Giriama nearly half homesteads interviewed used as gear, targeting juvenile fish prawns subsistence sale. The majority (MN) fishers here were men,...
Abstract Situated in the northernmost part of Mozambique, northern Querimbas Islands support some most diverse and pristine coral reefs Western Indian Ocean. The community-based turtle conservation programme that we developed on Vamizi Island has facilitated identification protection a key nesting site for green marine Chelonia mydas with mean 122 nests per year. area is also used by female immature hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata . Nesting activity was observed all year round, peak...
Opportunities to boost climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) sustainable conservation financing may lie in enhancing blue carbon sequestration, particularly developing nations where coastal ecosystems are extensive international markets offer comparatively attractive payments for environmental stewardship. While is receiving increased global attention, few credit-generating projects operational, due low credit-buyer incentives with uncertainty creditable emissions reductions high...
—In recent years there has been much interest in the conservation and tourism value of Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique. Historically, biological work focused on more accessible southern part Quirimbas. This paper is a contribution to knowledge resources north following survey conducted around Vamizi Island 2001, 2003 principally 2006. The results indicate it may be one few examples region that not yet suffered same level anthropogenic or natural disturbances other areas have suffered....
Mosquito net fishing (MNF) is a growing activity globally, particularly in places where mass distributions of nets are public health policy to tackle malaria. Due the mesh sizes used, and therefore its assumed 'indiscriminate' nature, MNF thought be unsustainable threat both fisheries resources biodiversity. As consequence, widely illegal. While body evidence as scale MNF, few detailed case studies exist none explicitly address assumptions ecological harm. Here, we present first full...
This document presents the results of an expert knowledge elicitation workshop which identifies policy mechanisms relevance to issue mosquito net fishing across relevant sectors public health, fisheries management, development and conservation. A synthesis current future recommendations is contextualised within literature these sectors, a first assessment potential interventions presented.
Abstract The State of Qatar is rich in energy reserves but deficient fertile land and water resources, which many other countries take for granted. Exploitation Qatar's oil gas has brought about a fundamental change the socio‐economic conditions country. population increased rapidly now contains high proportion expatriates. per capita demands both certain foodstuffs are currently among highest world. Government affording priority to expanding domestic agriculture and, 1980, commissioned...
In 1943, a cultivar of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) later known as Kentucky 312 was released for sale. This cool season grass became widely distributed in the southeastern United States because it persistent face drought, grew on poor soils and provided good erosion control, well large amounts forage hay or grazing.2 By 1950, recognized that animals grazing did not perform analysis would predict.2 1977, research (Bacon) revealed presence an endophyte, Neotyphodium coenophialum,...