Wildlife Conservation Society

Faculty Member, Challenges

Other Affiliations: The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences

Lead, Climate Adaptation Lead

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I am currently the lead of the Climate Change Adaptation challenge at the Wildlife Conservation Society. In this position I lead a team that provides technical expertise around understanding the needs of ecosystems, wildlife and human communities in a time of climate change, planning techniques that capture the changes that are predicted, and, with partners in government and communities, develop and promote successful climate adaptation actions and policies that reduce risk. We work throughout WCS’s landscape, seascape, and species conservation programs in Africa, South America, Oceania, Asia and North America. The team also works with governments, multilateral institutions and private landholders to help promote the conservation of natural ecosystems as a cost-effective and practical means of addressing the impacts of climate change on humans and wildlife (ecosystem-based adaptation).

I currently co-chair the IUCN SSC Climate Change Taskforce and am also a Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland.

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