A5030814874- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Sex work and related issues
- Environmental Sustainability and Technology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Bangor University
2020-2025
University of Oxford
2017-2020
Hudson Institute
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
Imperial College London
2017
Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia
2017
Charles Darwin University
2017
Abstract Conservation is an inherently social process—people collectively endeavor to enact conservation. Yet, in conservation science, research methodologies, training, and competency are less common than natural sciences. Globally, formal education training the sciences often unavailable or inaccessible practitioners, nonformal may help fill this gap. To identify potential opportunities, we implemented a global survey of practitioners their knowledge gaps science needs conducted gap...
Social science is becoming increasingly important in conservation, with more studies involving methodologies that collect data from and about people. Conservation a normative applied discipline designed to support inform management practice. Poor research practice risks harming participants and, researchers, can leave negative legacies. Often, those at the forefront of field-based are early-career many whom enter their first experience ill-prepared for ethical conundrums they may face. We...
Conservationists increasingly use unstructured observational data, such as citizen science records or ranger patrol observations, to guide decision making. These datasets are often large and relatively cheap collect, they have enormous potential. However, the resulting data generally "messy," their can incur considerable costs, some of which hidden. We present an overview opportunities limitations associated with messy by explaining how preferences, skills, incentives collectors affect...
Abstract Researchers and practitioners are increasingly using methods from the social sciences to address complex conservation challenges. This brings benefits but also responsibility understand suitability limitations of these in different contexts. After years use other disciplines, unmatched count technique (UCT) has recently been adopted by scientists investigate illegal socially undesirable human behaviours. Here we provide guidance for researchers on how apply UCT effectively, outline...
ABSTRACT Globally, hundreds of thousands rangers patrol protected areas every day. The data they collect have immense potential for monitoring biodiversity and threats to it. Technologies like SMART (Spatial Monitoring Reporting Tool), which facilitate the management ranger‐collected data, enhanced this potential. However, based on our experience across diverse use cases geographies, we found that ranger‐based is often implemented without a clear plan how will inform critical evaluation...
Abstract Agriculture threatens biodiversity across the tropics, particularly in semi-natural grassland landscapes, where human populations are high, habitat is easily converted and agriculture prone to intensification. Over last 20 years intensive, commercial dry season rice cultivation has emerged as dominant threat Bengal florican Houbaropsis bengalensis , a globally threatened bustard that breeds seasonally inundated grasslands of central Cambodia. Although floricans have been extensively...
Conservation takes place within social–ecological systems, and many conservation interventions aim to influence human behaviour in order push these systems towards sustainability. Predictive models of are potentially powerful tools support interventions. This is particularly true if the can link attributes individuals with dynamics social environmental which they operate. Here we explore this potential by showing how combining two modelling approaches (social network analysis, SNA,...
The threat posed to protected areas by the illegal killing of wildlife is countered principally ranger patrols that aim detect and deter potential offenders. Deterring poaching a fundamental conservation objective, but its achievement difficult identify, especially when prime source information comes in form patrols' own records, which inevitably contain biases. most common metric deterrence plot activities detected per unit patrol effort (CPUE) against (CPUE-E). We devised simple,...
Abstract Hunting is a primary driver of biodiversity loss across South-east Asia. Within Cambodia, the use wire snares to capture wildlife severe threat in protected areas but there have been few studies behaviour hunters from local communities. Here, we combine unmatched count technique with direct questioning estimate prevalence hunting behaviours and consumption amongst 705 households living within Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia. We assessed respondents’ knowledge rules, their...
Abstract Conservationists increasingly aim to understand human behaviour inform intervention design. However, obtaining information from people about their can be challenging, particularly if the research topic is considered sensitive. Topic sensitivity may raise methodological, ethical, political and legal concerns which, poorly addressed, have significant impacts on participants, process, data quality success of conservation outcomes that are informed by findings. While considerable effort...
Conservation increasingly relies on social science tools to understand human behavior. Specialized questioning techniques (SQTs) are a suite of methods designed reduce bias in surveys and widely used collect data sensitive topics, including compliance with conservation rules. Most SQTs have been developed Western, industrialized, educated, rich, democratic countries, meaning their suitability other contexts may be limited. Whether these perform better than conventional direct is important...
To develop more effective interventions, conservationists require robust information about the proportion of people who break conservation rules (such as those relating to protected species, or area legislation). Developed obtain accurate estimates sensitive behaviors, including rule-breaking, specialized questioning techniques such Randomized Response Techniques (RRTs) are increasingly applied in conservation, but with mixed evidence their effectiveness. We use a forced-response RRT...
ns detected per unit of patrol effort against (IPUE-E plots) are not reliable indicators deterrence. However, plots change in IPUE over (ΔIPUE-ΔE) reliably diagnose deterrence, regardless the temporal distribution or any exogenous illegal activity levels, as long data collected such that detection probability does saturate with increased effort, and when time-lag between subsequent behavioural among offenders is approximately known. ΔIPUE-ΔE no more conceptually complicated than basic...
Protected area management often depends heavily on law enforcement to secure compliance with rules. However, this can contribute conflict between protected authorities and local people, negatively affecting both human well-being conservation outcomes. Compliance is affected by many factors, including whether those who enforce rules are perceived do so fairly, as well the rule-related behavior of others. We used factorial survey experiments explore how fair respondents living around areas in...
Working mostly in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries, environmental psychologists have developed scales assessing relationships between pro-environmental beliefs behaviors. Tanzanian Indonesian protected area landscapes, containing important biodiversity conflict over human-nature interactions, we investigate the utility of New Ecological Paradigm for measuring understanding support regulations. We found ineffective at both countries; Tanzania due to...