Work my colleagues here at Bangor and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew on the trade in wild palms from central America (published in PLOS ONE) has been covered by the BBC, see the University press release and pictures from the field here.

Julie Razafimanahaka, our partner on the Darwin Initiative bushmeat project is highlighted as a special woman in conservation for International Woman’s day by Fauna and Flora International. See here.

Recent paper on the drivers of bushmeat hunting in Madagascar (published in PLOS ONE) has been covered by the BBC, New York Times, Daily Mail, Science Magasine AAAS, Mongabay, Arkive, PLOS blog, Grist, and the French language blog Slate Africa.

My PhD student Nadia Richman blogs from the field where she is studying Ganges river dolphins in Bangaldesh.

Does Community Forest Management provide the hoped for global environmental benefits and local welfare benefits. Our recent paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution on this subject has been covered by the BBC

Can we use innocuous questions to as about sensitive issues, such as illegal killing of carnivores? A recent paper of ours in Proceedings of the Royal Society which attempts to answer this question has been covered by New Scientist magasine , Conservation Magasine and the blogs Geek System and Freekanomics .

Sophie Williams won an award for the best student paper at the Botanical Society of American meeting in Mossouri, USA. Well done Sophie!

See here for an article about a recent paper we published in the Journal of Applied Ecology on whether conservation should be paid for by effort or results.

Please see here for details of fully-funded EU studentships to work on forest conservation and management (I am involved with two of the projects).

Bangor University is funded by the British Council to work with Universities in Bangladesh and Ghana to help them develop curricula at masters level in conservation science. Please see here for a recent press release about the project.

See here and here for press releases about a recent paper in Science which was co-authored by Nadia Richman and Richard Jenkins in our group.

Job Advert: We are looking for someone with population modeling experience (probably recently finished their PhD) for a 1-year job looking at managing game species in Madagascar sustainably. The job is part of a Darwin Initiative funded project ‘Bushmeat hunting in Madagascar: linking science, policy and local livelihoods’. The closing date is the 1st March 2010. Full details are available here

See here for the press release about funding for our Darwin Initiative funded project looking at bushmeat harvesting in Madagascar.

In collaboration with E. J. Milner-Gulland (Imperial College) and Ben Collen (Institute of Zoology) I organised a NERC Centre for Population Biology funded workshop called ‘Scaling biodiversity monitoring from the local to the global’ held at Imperial College 29th June to 1st July 2009. Details are available here