Human dimensions of Wildlife

Culturomics to monitor attitudes towards wildlife

Yesterday I gave a talk as part of the Ecology Live series organized by the British Ecological Society. I talked about some recent research around the use on online data to build a global and real time monitoring system of attitudes towards wildlife. Have a look below if that sounds interesting… It was a great … [Read more…]

Sacred groves in India

One of the last issues of Human Dimensions of Wildlife has an article on the selection of conservation flagship species, namely birds and trees, for sacred groves (forest areas that are considered to be sacred) in India. This research which took place in the North  Western Ghats region was lead by Yasuo Takahashi and co-authored by me, … [Read more…]