A5082439328- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Cambodian History and Society
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
Rural Development Agency
2017-2021
University of North Sumatra
2019
Imperial College London
2012-2018
University of Cambodia
2018
Wildlife Conservation Society Laos
2015-2017
Zoological Society of London
2012
Expansion of Hevea brasiliensis rubber plantations is a resurgent driver deforestation, carbon emissions, and biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia. Asian extent massive, equivalent to 67% oil palm, with rapid further expansion predicted. Results-based finance could dis-incentivise forest conversion rubber, but efficacy will be limited unless payments match, or at least approach, the costs avoided deforestation. These include opportunity (timber profits), plus scheme setup (transaction)...
Conservation investment, particularly for charismatic and wide-ranging large mammal species, needs to be evidence-based. Despite the prevalence of this theme within literature, examples robust data being generated guide conservation policy funding decisions are rare. We present first published case-study tiger in Indochina, from a site where an evidence-based approach has been implemented iconic predator its prey. persistence extensive areas habitat, Indochina's ungulate prey populations...
Abstract Long‐term monitoring of biodiversity in protected areas (PAs) is critical to assess threats, link conservation action species outcomes, and facilitate improved management. Yet, rigorous longitudinal within PAs rare. In Southeast Asia (SEA), there a paucity long‐term wildlife PAs, many threatened lack population estimates from anywhere their range, making global assessments difficult. Here, we present new abundance trends for 11 between 2010 2020, spatial distributions 7 species,...
Abstract Hunting with wire snares is rife within many tropical forest systems, and constitutes one of the severest threats to a wide range vertebrate taxa. As for all threats, reliable monitoring snaring levels critical assessing relative effectiveness management interventions. However, pose particular challenge in terms tracking spatial or temporal trends their prevalence because they are extremely difficult detect, typically spread across large, inaccessible areas. cryptic animal targets,...
Summary The catastrophic decline of the endangered Green peafowl Pavo muticus across its former range is well known, yet there are only a handful reliable population estimates for this species from remaining range, making global assessment challenging. We present first rigorous Cambodia, and model distribution relationships between several environmental covariates Core Zone (187,900 ha) Seima Protection Forest (SPF), eastern Cambodia. Using distance sampling abundance Peafowl in SPF 2014...
Reliable assessments of species' status are prerequisites for monitoring the success conservation programmes. However, survey conditions such as terrain and inaccessibility, compounded by low densities many species across Southeast Asia other parts world considerable barriers to obtaining robust populations estimates. We used an occupancy-based approach multi-model inference generate occupancy abundance estimates northern white-cheeked crested gibbons Nomascus leucogenys southern N. siki in...
South East Asia is at the heart of global extinction crisis and experiencing widespread biodiversity loss, including within Protected Areas (O'Kelly et al., 2012; Brook 2014; Johnson 2016). Across region there are insufficient resources, both financial technical, for effective management natural resources. In a growing number countries in sub-Saharan Africa weak capacity mismatch between available public-sector financing funds needed conservation have been met through formal partnerships...