Group Leader: Dr Susan Cheyne, Professor Giuseppe Donati, Professor Catherine (Kate) Hill
Contact: humansandwildlife@brookes.ac.uk
For the next event of our "One Health" seminar series (May 4th at 5pm) we will host Dr Hoby Ambinintsoa Rasoanaivo with a talk titled "Lemurs and Madagascar: my path to conservation in my home country" (registration link to access the Zoom session available at the bottom of this page).
Our group provides a forum for multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research into relationships between humans, animals and their environments.
Areas of particular expertise include:
Group members have extensive experience of fieldwork across Africa (West, East and South), Madagascar, Southeast Asia and the UK.
Research carried out by members of the HAE group has significant impact on biodiversity conservation and conservation conflicts beyond academia.
Group members’ research informs conservation policy and practice directly through inclusion in International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Guidelines documents and policy statements, training materials and training events for wildlife agency staff.
Members of the group also make a significant contribution to conservation policy and action through their individual work with various conservation and development NGOs, consultancies and local/national/international government departments, and through their public engagement and knowledge exchange activities, locally, nationally and internationally.
Our seminar series theme for this semester is One Health.
We inaugurated the series with the talk "Conservation of Gorillas Through a One Health Approach" by Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka. She provided an overview of the activities led by Conservation Through Public Health to support gorillas’ conservation during the pandemic. CTPH promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people to coexist with wildlife through improving animal health, community health and livelihoods.
