Duan Biggs
@duanbiggs
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Senior Research Fellow Griffith Uni: Community-based conservation, people-centred responses to illegal wildlife trade; resilience, nature-based tourism
Joined June 2014
RT @BAlexSimmons: As the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 begins, we've released a #policy brief urging the CBD to adopt the Global Wildlife Values S….
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RT @Richard_Spoor: The murder of Timbavati Head Ranger, Anton Mzimba, is an outrage. He was a man of enormous courage and principle. His wo….
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Join @kindraswari_ and @TRAFFIC_WLTrade for a webinar on 21 July on options for managing wild animal trade chains to reduce zoonotic risk. REGISTER and download the full report here:
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My TRAFFIC colleagues have some exciting opportunities with this great organisation on Central Asia!
traffic.org
Find out how you can join the global TRAFFIC team! Explore our current vacancies, tenders, consultancies, and voluntary positions
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Still thinking of where to go for conservation tourism in Africa this festive season? Our piece in the conversation led by @alexbraczkowski on great options as our home continent tries to recover from over 20 months of the brutal impact of the pandemic.
theconversation.com
The reduction of foreign tourism is an opportunity for Africans to experience many of the continent’s premier parks at a discount.
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RT @AmyDickman4: For comparison to the @AspinallCharity's appeal for £1 million to 'rewild' 13 elephants, here is @ruahacarnivores 2019 cos….
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RT @DICE_Kent: Come and join us! We are advertising TWO new permanent Lecturer positions in #Conservation #Science. Lecturer in Biodiversi….
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Feeling privileged to have contributed to this event hosted by Sabri Zain from @TRAFFIC_WLTrade on COVID-19, corruption and impact on rural communities. @U4_ACRC @dilysroe @wwfus @GU_Sciences @Griffith_SciEnv
worldwildlife.org
COVID-19 is not just an immediate human health crisis; it also poses a long-term socio-economic crisis for many local communities, threatening their healthcare, food supply, livelihoods and wellbeing.
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Great work on leading this Conversation piece Alex - there are no silver bullets for getting to resilient human-wildlife coexistence.
Financial compensation may not be the magic bullet for conservation. Here’s a fun piece we did on the good, the bad and alternatives to financial compensation and human wildlife conflict. With @martine_maron @duanbiggs @ChrisOBryan89 and @FattebertJ .
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Great work and persistence on leading this valuable and timely paper @hcheung7 . TCM needs to be engaged respectfully, on its own terms, to achieve lasting conservation outcomes.
Happy to be part of this paper; important to engage with #TCM on its own terms when working for #conservation of species in #wildlife trade, or risk being ignored
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Great work on this @hcheung7 , a very helpful paper for research across linguistic and cultural lines.
Struggling with how to translate your study instruments? Look no further than @MethodsEcolEvol.
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Finding a pragmatic outcome to this contentious and polarised debate is critical in the face of the decimation of tourism income due to COVID19 @dilysroe @AmyDickman @rosie__cooney.
In search of a pragmatic outcome for Africa's conservation and trophy hunting dilemma. Our new article in @TC_Africa, with @duanbiggs @ForceCT @alexbraczkowski @CentreforCST @HELICS_Lab.
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Well done on yet another excellent paper Julia. And very timely with all the new effort to control wildlife trade in the light of #COVID19 @AfricanParks @LucHoffmannInst.
❗️New paper❗️Our study in Biological Conservation looks at how local communities in Malawi may respond to diff. community-based interventions to reduce #bushmeat hunting and consumption. #conservation #iwt #cbnrm .@henry_travers @duanbiggs @boyson_moyo.
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RT @Niall_L_Hammond: 1/6 #SSWGTC20 @SCB_SSWG. Wildlife has been linked to the outbreak of #COVID19 🐾😷. This has led to calls on social medi….
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RT @HayleySClements: Private landowners in South Africa conserve >40% of the world's remaining white rhinos. Our new paper in @ConLetters h….
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You are very fortunate to have been in the field filming the first wild reintroduction of seized pangolins Alex! @DanChallender.
Pangolins are back in the wild! Our new article on the worlds first reintroduction of Temmincks pangolins back to South Africa - thanks @andbeyondtravel @duanbiggs @ChrisOBryan89 @PangolinWorking .
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Great work and persistence on this paper @alexbraczkowski!.
Estimates of the number of wild African lions miss the mark and risk over estimating their true number. The good news for lion conservation is that more accurate methods are now available. New paper led by @alexbraczkowski in @FrontEcolEvol
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The #covid 19 crisis gives us an opportunity to rethink how we function as society, and how we do conservation. Our new report led by @IslaHodgson points to how we can do this for human wildlife conflict & co-existence.
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Sign the petition: Don’t make uni staff pay for Coronavirus! #CovidUnis via @MegaphoneAU.
megaphone.org.au
No university worker should be forced to choose between quarantine and feeding their family. The Coronavirus Covid-19 crisis is engulfing Australia - and our universities are in the eye of the...
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