Landscapes across the world are under increasing human pressure. This intensifies biodiversity threats such as habitat loss, land conversation and climate change. We predict and examine the impacts of these dynamics, helping inform conservation strategies in an ever-changing world.

Relevant Programmes

Bornean Carnivore Programme

Long-running research answering fundamental questions about populations, habitat status and conservation needs.

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Ecology and Conservation of European Hedgehogs

Exploring challenging issues in wildlife conservation equity and effectiveness, compiling evidence to inform policy.

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Farming and Wildlife Programme

From early studies on field margins at Wytham, our work has broadened in its scope: from field to farm to landscape scales, and across a range of species and habitats.

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Long Shields Guardian Programme

A conservation initiative on the boundaries on Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, working for both ecological and social impact.

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Southeast Asian Felids

Long-term research into the ecology, behaviour and habitat of southeast Asian felids to inform site-based conservation efforts.

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Carnivore population monitoring in Botswana and Zimbabwe

Establishing baseline population densities of large carnivores and monitoring this over time for insights into population trends and to identify threats.

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Botswana Coexistence Programme

Tackling the underlying causes and providing community-led solutions is the key to promoting human-predator coexistence in the rural farming areas of northern Botswana.

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Relevant Projects

Changing carnivore communities & human-wildlife conflict in East Africa

Exploring how species interactions shape populations, the impact of human activities and implications for conservation.

Conserving African wild dogs under climate change  

Using behavioural, spatial and demographic data to inform local and range-wide wild dog conservation strategy.
Fragmented Futures: Landscape Connectivity in Southeast Asia

This project investigates how habitat degradation affects the connectivity of carnivore populations, and how future environmental changes might impact their distribution, population size, and genetic diversity.
Impacts of climate change on lions across Africa

Unravelling processes happening to landscapes as climate changes and exploring the impacts on lion habitat and behaviour.
Jaguar Connectivity Initiative

Developing the first landscape ecological modelled assessment of jaguar population connectivity across the species’ entire range.
Multi-species connectivity modelling across the Kavango-Zambezi landscape

Fusing cutting-edge behavioural science with conservation expertise to influence human behaviours negatively impacting biodiversity.
Population genomics of Sunda clouded leopards

Exploring the impact of landscape modification on clouded leopards’ population connectivity.
Regenerative farming and biodiversity

Exploring the impacts of a regenerative farming system on butterfly communities
Value of trees outside woods for farmland biodiversity

Quantifying the value of trees outside woods for wildlife and understanding their management challenges
Bridging science and policy for land-use planning in Bhutan

By examining environmental and human dimensions, this work aims to provide a strong scientific foundation to underpin the development of policy.
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