The study explored the impact of a natural history film, “The Elephant Queen” (TEQ), on the attitudes of communities living near elephants in Southern Kenya. Human-elephant conflict poses a significant challenge to wildlife conservation, and while efforts have been made to mitigate conflict, few focus on fostering understanding and tolerance between humans and elephants. Researchers … [Read more…]
The presentation I gave at the fantastic Human-Wildlife Conflict and coexistence is now online! A summary of the findings can be found below: This study looked at whether a natural history film about elephants, called The Elephant Queen, could make communities living near elephants more tolerant of conflicts with them. The researchers surveyed people before … [Read more…]
By Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University and Brian Campbell, University of Kent As the world’s tigers, elephants, rhinos and pangolins continue to be poached, smuggled and sold, wildlife conservationists have declared war on wildlife trafficking and illegal hunting. These “wildlife wars” have received wide media coverage and led to an exceptional increase in enforcement through, … [Read more…]
In the last week or so I had to papers published on the use of conservation flagships. The first (see PDF here) dwells on the selection of conservation flagship species using bird conservation in Brazil. This was part of my PhD and hopes to connect some the dots in terms of building bridges between marketing … [Read more…]