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Characterizing efforts to reduce consumer demand for wildlife products

02/10/2018

EXTRA! EXTRA! Just out in the journal Conservation Biology is a review of of demand reduction interventions for wildlife trade products. My co-author Anita Wan and I reviewed more than 200 campaigns and look at they were distributed through time, space and in terms of biological groups (see below). We also looked at what information … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: behaviour change, Biodiversity, campaign, Conservation, conservation biology, conservation marketing, demand reduction, Education, Nature, Outreach, review, widlife, widllife trade

Harry Potter is not so bad after all

06/10/2017

For years there have been reports in the popular press of the impact of the Harry Potter phenomenon in the UK on the demand for owls as pets. This narrative became so popular that it led even JK Rowling to issue several statements on this issue asking fans to not keep owls as pets. But … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: behaviour change, Biodiversity, Conservation, demand, Diogo Verissimo, Harry Potter, Hedwig, Hogwarts, increase, Owl, pet, trafficking, UK, widllife trade

Sea turtles of São Tomé: Selling what can’t be sold

20/03/2017

Today I bring you my latest blogpost on the National Geographic Voices blog! It talks about the work I have being doing with ATM, a Portuguese NGO dedicated to the conservation of marine turtles in Portuguese speaking countries.  We have been working on a social marketing campaign to reduce the demand for sea turtle meat … [Read more…]

Posted in: In the popular press Tagged: Africa, behaviour change, bushmeat, campaign, demand reduction, Marine turtle, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sea turtle, Social Marketing, widllife trade

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