Munro Building N1.9
Silwood Park
Imperial College London
Ascot, Berkshire
SL5 7PY, UK

e: ana.nuno08 @ imperial.ac.uk
t: +44 20 7594 2262

Research interests

My broad research interests are focused at understanding human-wildlife interactions and anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity change in order to minimize conflict and to support sustainable use of wildlife resources.

Current research

Working in the Serengeti, Tanzania, I will investigate the interactions between multiple components of local hunting. In outline, I will develop an operating model of bushmeat hunting, including management and biological dynamics, informed by social surveys of households to understand the decision-making process leading to participation in illegal hunting.

I will use this approach to predict the potential effects of changes in parameter values and management decisions on hunting behaviour, and hence on the abundance and distribution of bushmeat species. The model will be used to provide recommendations for the best way to provide incentives to law compliance and advise on the best management strategies to promote conservation and sustainable use of ecosystem services

This research is funded by the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and supervised by Prof E.J. Milner-Gulland and Dr Nils Bunnefeld.

For more information on “Hunting for sustainability”, see HUNT.

Brief CV

2009 – present PhD student at Imperial College of London

2008-2009 Intern at Convergence Centre/GAIA (NGO), Aldeia das Amoreiras, Portugal

2006-2007 MRes Biodiversity & Conservation at University of Leeds. Collaboration with Jaguar Conservation Fund, Brazil, and Centre for Environmental Biology, Lisbon, Portugal

2005-2006 Intern at Mammal Research Institute, Bialowieza, Poland

2004-2005 Volunteer research assistant at CIMAR (Centre of Marine & Environmental Research), Porto, Portugal

2001-2005 BSc Biology at University of Porto, Portugal

Publications

Milner-Gulland EJ, Arroyo B, Bellard C, Blanchard J, Bunnefeld N, Delibes-Mateos M, Edwards C, Nuno A, Palazy L, Reljic S, Riera P, Skrbinsek T. (2010) New directions in Management Strategy Evaluation through cross-fertilisation between fisheries science and terrestrial conservation. Biology Letters 6: 719-722.