Welcome to the AERG website
The Animal and Environment Research Group (AERG) is an interdisciplinary community of scientists working with relevant external organisations and industries in order to improve our understanding of the natural world and provide innovative solutions to the urgent and complex global issues of sustainable, ethical resource use and biodiversity loss. Our research has impact through conservation and wildlife management policy and through the animal-based leisure and food production economies. We operate in both human-dominated and wild landscapes. Read more ...Recent examples:
Output: Policy Forum piece on elephants and the ivory trade in Science.External Income: £220,000 from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, over six years, to set up an eco-hydrological monitoring and evaluation programme at landscape-scale, UK wetland restoration projects.
Public Engagement: UK Ladybird Survey website and presentation on harlequin ladybird invasion at the Royal Society Exhibition 2009.
Media: Widespread radio and web news reporting of the discovery of new species of giant elephant shrew.
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