Rob is a Visiting Research Fellow in Zoology and is a highly experienced ecologist/land manager who has focused on environmental and natural resource management, ecology and conservation in the private sector and on private-public partnerships for over 25 years. Rob’s work in Central, East and Southern Africa and Cambodia has given him a deep realisation of the environmental, social and economic complexities and opportunities in Africa, and an understanding of how these factors influence conservation objectives and outcomes. He is particularly interested in how climate change will influence land-use planning, conservation management in mosaic landscapes, conservation-based tourism and the provision of ecosystem services. Rob currently works for the African Conservation Development Company (ACDG) as the Director of Science and Environmental Planning. The ACDG takes a holistic and integrated approach to economic, community, environmental and conservation rights to optimise land-use and deliver sustainable, conservation-led development projects.
PhD Zoology (2005) The demography of a fragmented population of the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana Blumenbach) in Maputaland.
MSc Wildlife Management & Control (1995)
BSc (Hons) Environmental Studies (1994)
I am a Scientific Fellow of the Higher Zoological Society of London and a member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy.
