Responsibilities

• Senior Visiting Fellow in Ecology and Conservation
• Independent Conservationist
• Visiting Scholar, UC, San Diego

Qualifications

Richard Barnes is an internationally respected, independent conservationist, affiliated to Anglia Ruskin University here in the UK and the University of California, San Diego in the USA. He has worked on elephants and primates throughout Africa with a range of conservation agencies including CI, WCS, WWF and IUCN. He is a former Field Director of Karisoke Research Centre, Virunga Volcanoes, Rwanda and has over 60 publications plus numerous unpublished reports.

Research

Elephants
Primates
Surveying techniques
Human-elephant conflict
Bushmeat

Publications

Barnes, R.F.W. (2001) How reliable are dung counts for estimating forest elephant numbers? African Journal of Ecology 39: 1-9.

Barnes, R.F.W. & Dunn, A. (2002) Estimating forest elephant density in Sapo National Park (Liberia) with a rainfall model. African Journal of Ecology 40: 159-163.

Barnes, R.F.W. (2002) The problem of precision and trend detection posed by small elephant populations in West Africa. African Journal of Ecology 40: 179-185.

Barnes, R.F.W. (2002) The bushmeat boom and bust in West and Central Africa. Oryx 36: 236-242.

Sam, M.K., Haizel, C.A.K. & Barnes, R.F.W. (2002) Do cattle determine elephant distribution in the Red Volta Valley of northern Ghana? Pachyderm 33: 39-42.

Barnes, R.F.W. (2002) Treating crop-raiding elephants with aspirin. Pachyderm 33: 96-99.

Blanc, J., Thouless, C.R., Dublin, H.T., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Craig, G.C. & Barnes, R.F.W. (2003) African Elephant Status Report 2002. IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.