**Please note: this event has now been postponed until Tuesday 5th April.**
On Tuesday 5th April, School of Anthropology and Conservation alumnus Dr Charlie Gardner and photographer Louise Jasper will be on campus to present a photographic slideshow from their new book Life Amongst The Thorns: Biodiversity and Conservation of Madagascar’s Spiny Forest, followed by a book-signing.
Produced in collaboration with WWF Madagascar and Western Indian Ocean Programme Office (MWIOPO), Gardner and Jasper’s book, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, provides a fascinating introduction to one of the world’s great biological treasures, the unique but highly threatened Spiny Forest. Lavishly illustrated with stunning images and including an authoritative, fully referenced text, the book begins by introducing the diverse endemic flora and fauna of the region before exploring how people have shaped today’s landscapes and biodiversity. Continuing with a discussion of the varied conservation actions now being implemented to save this fragile region and an overview of its protected areas, this accessible book will appeal to conservationists and wildlife lovers the world over.
Date: Tuesday 5th April
Venue and time: TBC
Charlie Gardner: Having completed a BSc Zoology at the University of Leeds, Charlie studied for an MSc in Conservation Biology at DICE in 2002. He returned to DICE to carry out his doctoral research in 2009, submitting a thesis entitled ‘Reconciling conservation and development in Madagascar’s rapidly expanding protected area system’ in 2014. Charlie carries out a range of research, both traditional conservation biology and conservation social science, that advances the practice and theory of protected area governance and management and community-based natural resource management. He is also interested in approaches that help span the researcher-practitioner divide for more effective, evidence-based conservation.