Welcome to the Conservation Ecology Research Group! We are a group of researchers based at Durham University, in Durham, United Kingdom. Our work ranges from the evolutionary ecology of individual behaviour to the drivers of global biogeographic patterns, usually with a strong applied focus. 
​Recent News

  • Pen has won the 'Science Postgraduate Excellence in Outreach Award' for his work with engaging school students with the project, MammalWeb. As part of this outreach work Pen worked with students from Belmont Community School in Durham, teaching them about camera trapping, and allowing them to do their own field work and research with the camera traps. Together, they made a video to explain more about MammalWeb and their experiences with it. You can watch the full video by clicking here, or a shorter version of the video here.
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  • ​Nicolas has a new paper published, titled "The mismatch between location of protected areas and suitable habitat for the Vulnerable taruka Hippocamelus antisensis". Click here for a link to the paper.

  • Tom has a new paper out in Conservation Letters exploring how we should be managing the wicked problem of conservation conflict. Check out a blog on the paper by co-lead author Chris here! 
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  • Wayne Dawson was successful in getting two grants funded last week-
  1. He got a British Council Newton Fund/FAPESP travel grant to visit Prof. Dalva Matos at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil), to do some pilot work on interactions between invasive white ginger, soils and Capybara in São Paolo state.
  2. He is a co-I on a grant led by Dr. Rosemary Newton (RBG Kew), funded by the Darwin+ Initiative (DEFRA). This project will monitor the longer-term effectiveness of exotic plant eradication efforts being undertaken on South Georgia Island, and will assess the risk of exotic plant colonisation of recently deglaciated areas.
 
  • Huge congratulations to Pen-Yuan Hsing who won the Overall Student Talk Prize at the Ecology Across Borders 2017 Conference. Pen gave a great talk titled ' Science and citizenship: Capacity building for civic engagement through the MammalWeb citizen science project'.
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