DAY ONE
THURSDAY, July 23rd
08:45 - 09:00 // Conference welcome - Anna Jemmett, Michaela Lo & Natalie Yoh (PhD students)
SESSION 1: Human-wildlife coexistence #1
09:00 - 09:15 //
09:15 - 09:30 //
09:30 - 09:45 //
09:45 - 10:00 //
10:00 - 10:15 //
10:15 - 10:30 //
Examining the determinants of cultural change towards motivations in lion killing among the Maasai - Luke Keloi Maamai (MSc student)
Indigenous populations, livelihoods and deforestation
- Adam Roberts (Jahoo, Alumni)
The impact of transportation and service corridors on primates: knowledge, gaps, and mitigation
- Ben Galea (MSc student)
Using culturomics to monitor attitudes towards wildlife at a global scale and in real-time
- Dr Diogo Veríssimo (University of Oxford, Alumni)
Hyenas and humans - despised and demonised
- Prof. Keith Somerville (Research staff)
Measuring tolerance for elephants using the Wildlife Tolerance Model (WTM)
- Caitlin Melidonis (MSc student)
SESSION 2: Wildlife trade and sustainable use #1
10:30 - 10:45 //
10:45 - 11:00 //
Interdisciplinary Conservation of Bears in Southeast Asia
- Brian Crudge (Free The Bears, Alumni)
Effectiveness of international wildlife trade interventions and policies: A systematic review
- Siri Ockerman (MSc student)
SESSION 3: Species monitoring and conservation #1
11:00 - 11:15 //
11:15 - 11:30 //
11:30 - 11:45 //
11:45 - 12:00 //
Breeding Cycle and Habitat Selection in Frigate birds on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
- Elysia Davies (MSc student)
Possible sources of bias in beach-cast data for Māui dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui)
- Micaela Grove (MSc student)
The prevalence and source of plastic incorporated into nests of five seabird species
- Danni Thompson (JNCC, Alumni)
Modelling Possible Breeding Territories for the Reintroduction of Red-billed Chough to Kent
- Jack Slattery (PhD student)
SESSION 4: Landscapes and livelihoods #1
12:00 - 12:15 //
12:15 - 12:30 //
12:30 - 12:45 //
12:45 - 13:00 //
The relationship between forests and freshwater fish consumption in rural Nigeria
- Michaela Lo (PhD student)
Quantifying the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity
- Joseph Oakley (MSc student)
Evaluating biodiversity conservation impact in social-ecological systems
- Dr Joe W Bull (Research staff)
Fading Fady: Changing Respect for Customary Institutions in Eastern Madagascar
- Sarah Humphrys (Izele, Alumni)
SESSION 5: Designing conservation areas
13:00 - 13:15 //
13:15 - 13:30 //
13:30 - 13:45 //
13:45 - 14:00 //
Developing a national-level system to inform land-use policy and practice in the UK
- Prof. Bob Smith (Director of DICE)
Mapping and modelling agricultural transformation risk and ecotourism potential in Maputaland
- Nuwanthika Dharmaratne (MSc student)
From the Neotropics with Birds: Urban Dwellers
- Will Hayes (PhD student)
Mapping conservation values to inform land use planning across terrestrial Kenya
- Gwili Gibbon (PhD student)
SESSION 6: Conservation effectiveness #1
14:00 - 14:15 //
14:15 - 14:30 //
14:30 - 14:45 //
14:45 - 15:00 //
The Borneo and Papua Atlas: Geo-platform tracks development on remote islands as-it-happens
- Dr David Gaveau (TheTreeMap, Alumni)
Redonda Reborn: Rapid impacts of invasive mammal removal on a remote Caribbean island ecosystem
- Shanna Challenger (MSc student)
Negotiating the Gaze: People, Power and Conservation Surveillance
- Trishant Simlai (University of Cambridge, Alumni)
Science is not enough in an emergency
- Dr Charlie Gardner (Research staff)
SESSION 7: Species monitoring and conservation #2
15:00 - 15:15 //
15:15 - 15:30 //
15:30 - 15:45 //
15:45 - 16:00 //
16:00 - 16:15 //
Global Tree Assessment
- Dr Sara Oldfield (DICE Advisory Board)
Orangutan persistence and connectivity across human modified landscapes
- Dave Seaman (PhD student)
Detecting Wild Camel Hybrids
- Anna Jemmett (PhD student)
The Sumatran Rhino Rescue Project
- Cathy Dean (Save The Rhinos, DICE Advisory Board)
Assessing the impacts of human disturbances on wildlife communities in Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
- Lucy E Perera (Washington State University, Alumni)