Dr Helen Pheasey

  Dr Helen Pheasey has a career in conservation spanning 20 years which has involved undertaking research in both the natural and social sciences. From 2022-2024 she taught undergraduate modules: Biodiversity, Wildlife Conservation and Management, Key Issues in Conservation, Conservation and Communities. Tropical Field Ecology. Prior to that she spent five years living at remote field stations in Costa Rica, working with marine turtles. Her most notable project involved deploying 3D printed, GPS enabled decoy turtle eggs to track illegal trade.

Helen also spent two years undertaking species inventories at a nature reserve in Paraguay. Her other conservation work has been wide and varied, from interviewing chameleon exporters, poachers and drug users to managing citizen science projects and collaborating with law enforcement officials and NGOs.

Now she is enjoying her time as a postdoctoral researcher with the Food and Nature Programme. Her research aims to better understanding the demographic variables driving purchasing habits of wildmeat in west Africa.

• International wildlife trade
• Community-based conservation and sustainable use of wildlife.
• Marine turtles
• Wildmeat consumption and trade  

WCON5350: Tropical Conservation Science Field Course