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