Research Themes

• Conservation of mammals in Central Asia, particularly saiga antelopes
• The role of monitoring in wildlife conservation
• Bioeconomics of bushmeat hunting
• Livelihood dynamics of natural resource users
• Attitudes to the environment and conservation
• Conservation Economics
• Human and animal decision-making

• Optimising monitoring as a conservation tool (Funder: Leverhulme Trust; Researchers: Julia Jones, Emily Nicholson, Matt Sommerville, Aidan Keane)
• Scaling up human and animal decision-making for effective conservation action (Funder: Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship; Researcher: E.J. Milner-Gulland)
• Participatory monitoring of saiga antelope population ecology (Funder: British Council BRIDGE; Researchers: Lizzie Whitebread, Helen O'Neill)
• Supporting the CMS MOU on saiga conservation (Funder: Convention on Migratory Species, Researcher: Lizzie Whitebread)

• Evaluating approaches to public engagement in saiga conservation (Funder: Darwin Initiative; Researcher: Caroline Howe)
• Rotating cows as a tool for conserving saiga antelopes (Funder: DEFRA, Researcher: E.J. Milner-Gulland)
• Reproductive ecology of the Critically Endangered saiga antelope (Funder: INTAS, Researcher: Aline Kühl)
• Conservation of species threatened by the bushmeat trade in Equatorial Guinea ( Funder: Conservation International, Researcher: Noëlle Kümpel, Sophie Allebone-Webb, Janna Rist)
• Using saiga antelope conservation to improve rural livelihoods (Funder: Darwin Initiative, Researcher Aline Kühl)
• Spatial models of the effect of habitat changes on normadic species in Borneo (Funder: Leverhulme Trust, Researcher: Penny Hancock)
• The effects of policy tools on hunter incentives (Funder: Conservation International; researcher: D. Crookes)
• Correlates of Extinction Risk for Central Asian Biodiversity (Funder: INTAS; researcher: Stephen Ling)
• Conservation of the Paguyaman Forest, Sulawesi, Indonesia (Funder: Darwin Initiative; collaborator: Lynn Clayton)
• Desertification and Regeneration: Modelling the Impact of Market Reforms on Central Asian Rangelands (Funder: INCO-COPERNICUS, collaborator Macauley Land Use Research Institute)
• The population genetics and conservation of the saiga antelope (Funder: INTAS, collaborator Dr M. Kholodova)
• The effect of socio-economic changes on the epidemiology of Echinococcus in Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan (Funder: INTAS, collaborator Dr Paul Torgerson)
• The interaction between saiga and domestic livestock in the Aral Sea area through contact, competition, parasites and disease (Funder: INTAS, researchers: Monica Lundervold, Eric Morgan)
• Land degradation and agricultural change on the rangelands of Kazakhstan (Funder: INTAS, researcher: Sarah Robinson)
• The role of public education in the conservation of the babirusa in Sulawesi, Indonesia (Funder: PTES; collaborator: Lynn Clayton)
• Sustainability of wildlife and rattan trades in North Sulawesi, Indonesia (Funder: Darwin Initiative; collaborator: Lynn Clayton)