News
Conservation Asia 2018
Mainstreaming Conservation in a Changing Asia
Between the 6th – 10th August the American University of Central Asia hosted The Fifth Regional Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology Asia Section, ‘Mainstreaming Conservation in a Changing Asia’.
In attendance were delegates from WildCRU who were invited to present their research.
Geraldine presented her interdisciplinary research around the phylogeny and ecology of the Himalayan wolf and drew conservation implications from it. Based on her genetic work the phylogenetic uniqueness of the Himalayan wolf is being increasingly corroborated. But to date conservation players and governments have overlooked the protection of this wolf. Geraldine concludes that the Himalayan wolf with its specialised adaptation to life at high altitudes along with the snow leopard can be a powerful conservation ambassador for the Asian high altitude wildernesses.
Amy gave a short presentation about the Living with Tigers Projects interventions to reduce human-felid conflicts in Nepal and explained the social and ecological research used to monitor the impacts of these interventions. Amy also presented a poster on this topic.
