{"id":234,"date":"2019-02-22T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.science4wildlife.com\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:57:56","slug":"joe-kelly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science4wildlife.com\/index.php\/joe-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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*Update: Joe Kelly is no longer part of the Inspire4Nature program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My interests broadly fall within conservation ecology and biogeography, though I\u2019m particularly keen on pursuing research that can improve the long-term effectiveness of conservation. I\u2019ve spent six years living in various African and Asian countries, working on topics such as: the behavioural ecology of great apes; forest elephant movements and human-elephant conflict; and bird diversity and distribution on Indonesian islands. I most recently worked for NGO Rimba Malaysia investigating land-use and selective logging with satellite data and GIS. In my PhD project I will be studying \u2018the effectiveness of protected areas at avoiding species extinctions\u2019. I plan to take approaches that compare this effectiveness to that of other conservation actions, and explore which ecological and political factors are the most important determinants. I hope that such research can be applied by policy-makers to the management and creation of protected area networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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