Senior Research Fellow Social-Ecological Systems & Resilience, Griffith University
I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University
My research is applied and focused on having real-world policy and management impact.
I work on a range of conservation issues including managing global supply chains for biodiversity outcomes, navigating the complexity of conservation's illegal wildlife trade crisis, nature-based tourism, community-based conservation and the development of wildlife and biodiversity economies.
I work closely with the IUCN, the Luc Hoffmann Institute and WWF as well as the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED.org) to ensure my research delivers to policy and management needs.
I am appointed as an adjunct at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland and at Stellenbosch Universityin South Africa.
It's time to break the deadlock over Africa's ivory trade: here's how
Aug 27, 2019 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Fierce debates over ivory have dominated the global conference for the international trade in species for 30 years, since the first international ivory ban was instituted in 1989. This is no different at the 18th...
China's legalisation of rhino horn trade: disaster or opportunity?
Nov 26, 2018 16:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Chinese government will be reopening the nations domestic rhino horn trade, overturning a ban that has stood since 1993. An outcry since the announcement has led to the postponement of the lifting of the ban, which...
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