Friday 22nd March
Thematic Sessions on Conservation Geopolitics, International Development, and Innovative Multi-Sector
Stream 1: Auditorium, Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Session chair - Catherine Redgwell, Chichele Professor of Public International Law, Department of Law, University of Oxford, UK
09:00 - 09:30 - Reforming the (ab)use of science in law: methods for communicating science to improve legal decision making
Yaffa Epstein, Uppsala University, Sweden
09:30 - 10:00 - Protection status and jurisdictional mismatches in the shadow of trophy hunting
Annecoos Wiersema, University of Denver, USA, Floor Fleurke, Tilburg University, Netherlands
10:00 - 10:30 - The US Endangered Species Act as a tool for de-facto sanctions
Catherine Semcer, Property and Environmental Research Centre, Bozeman, USA
10:30 - 11:00 - Leopards (Panthera pardus) and wildlife treaties – transboundary cooperation to improve the fate of the world's most international big cat
Arie Trouwborst, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Session chair: Andrew Rowan, WellBeing International, USA
11:30 - 11:52 - Conservation lessons from moments of ‘moral panic': Marius, Cecil, Harambe, Tilikum, and Xanda
Mucha Mkono, University of Queensland, Australia
11:52 - 12:15 - Giving voice to humans and non-humans: inclusion and justice in use of natural resources
Phyllis Lee, University of Stirling, UK, and C. Hoffman, A. Schapper
12:15 - 12:37 - Did we ask wolves whether they consent to be managed?
Guillaume Chapron, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden and Yaffa Epstein, Uppsala University, Sweden
12:37 - 13:00 - The Anthropocene: geopolitical challenges and opportunities for conservation ethics
Bernhard Malkmus, Newcastle University, UK
Stream 2: Nash Suite
Session chair: Paul Johnson, WildCRU, Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
09:00 - 09:30 - Bosses, baddies, and “baby-huggers”: the ethics of fundraising in orangutan rehabilitation
Ally Palmer, University of Oxford, UK
09:30 - 10:00 - Removing barriers to family planning, empowering sustainable environmental conservation
David Johnson, Margaret Pyke Trust, Population and Sustainability Network
10:00 - 10:30 - Biology, radical conservatism and the origins of geopolitics
Ian Klinke, University of Oxford, UK
10:30 - 11:00 - The congealing nature of world heritage: emergent properties of ‘kinservation'
Daisy Sutcliffe, University of Glasgow, UK
11:00 - 11:30 - Break
Session chair: Craig Packer, University of Minnesota, USA
11:30 - 11:48 - The impact of climate change on community-based wildlife management: a case study from northwest Namibia
Stefan Carpenter, Indiana University, USA
11:48 - 12:06 - Using cross-country comparisons to explore patterns in livestock management and reduce human-carnivore conflict
Laura Perry, University of Oxford, UK
12:06 - 12:24 - Human – leopard conflict and conservation measure in Himalayan region of Pakistan
Asma Jabeen and Arooj Fatima, Fatima Jinnah Womens University, Pakistan
12:24 - 12:42 - Mitigating human-wildlife conflict using the Thomas Kilmann instrument
B.M. Mandara, Christ University, Bengaluru, India
12:42 - 13:00 - Human-wildlife coexistence: a utopia
Aenne Post, Kisumu, Kenya
Stream 3: Hinton Room
Session chair: Dr Tom Moorhouse, WildCRU, University of Oxford, UK
09:00 - 11:00 - Workshop on Wildlife Tourism: friend or foe to conservation?
Tom Moorhouse in conversation with Joseph Mbaiwa, David Ville and, Jessica Bell Rizzolo, with discussants Noel Mbise, Edwin Tambara, Abhishek Ghoshal
11:00 - 11:30 - Break
Session chair: EJ Milner-Gulland, ICCS, Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
11:30 - 11:48 - Monitoring of illegal ivory trade in Kenya: the analysis controversy and geopolitics
Shadrack Ngene, Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya
11:48 - 12:06 - Targeting wildlife crime interventions
Stephanie Romañach, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, and Sally Faulkner, Michael Stevens, Peter Lindsey, Steven Le Comber
12:06 - 12:24 - Cancellation
12:24 - 12:42 - Social media as an influencer: insights from pangolins and otters
Lauren Harrington, WildCRU, Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
12:42 - 13:00 - Monitoring illegal trade in snow leopards: 2003 to 2014: addressing geopolitical constraints
Aishwarya Maheshwari, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, India
Friday 22nd March PM: Auditorium, Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Session chair: David Macdonald
14:30 - 15:00 - Academia, international wildlife trade, and effective conservation: is there really common ground?
Rodrigo Medellin, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
15:00 - 15:30 - Who cares pays; or do they?
Craig Packer, University of Minnesota, USA
15:30 - 16:00 - Questions and answers, discussion
16:00 - 16:30 - Break
Panel session chair: David Macdonald
16:30 - 17:50 - Panel discussion and synthesis
Cosmin Corendea, Rosaleen Duffy, David Johnson, Dominic Johnson, Craig Packer and Mark Stanley-Price
17:50 - 18:00 - Farewell reflections
David Macdonald