Background

I am a Principal Conservation Scientist at RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, where my current research focuses on management of tropical forest-agricultural landscapes to minimize trade-offs and maximise synergy between biodiversity, carbon and sustainable livelihoods, and how conservation and policy interventions affect those trade-offs. My work is mainly in West Africa, particularly the Greater Gola Landscape, a matrix of protected tropical forest (including a REDD+ project) and community lands consisting of forest, commodity crops and agriculture, with my research aiming to inform the work of the community-NGO-government partnership that manages the landscape.