Our focus is in Monte Alén National Park, where we work with local communities to find ways for people to co-exist with the park’s wildlife, which includes the Critically Endangered western lowland gorilla and African forest elephant.
Our Equatorial Guinea projects
We undertake monitoring of biodiversity within Monte Alén National Park to measure the effectiveness of our conservation work and identify priority areas to protect against hunting.
We use camera traps and acoustic monitors to understand the diversity, distribution, and density of the park’s wildlife, as well as threats against it.
Thanks to our camera traps, we have information about the park’s forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, leopards, pangolins, mandrills and many more species
We have also identified hotspots of forest biodiversity, which are important for our conservation work
To allow humans and elephants to co-exist peacefully, we need to ensure that elephants do not encroach on the communities that surround the national park.
Our team collects data on when elephants and other animals venture into local farms and eat people’s crops. We are trialling new types of fences to keep the crops safe from elephants. This work is supported by the Elephant Crisis Fund and the Fraxinus Foundation.
One of our fence types consists of locally made “smelly elephant repellent” (a mix of chilli, elephant dung, and other smelly things!)
We are trialling new beehive fences, which could also produce honey to benefit local farmers
This exciting new project is engaging with local communities to understand people’s perceptions of wildlife in the park and investigate ways to reduce conflicts between people and wildlife. This project is supported by the IUCN and GEF-7.
150 interviews completed around Monte Alen National Park, to gather information on people’s farming practices and perceptions of wildlife
Seven people trained as Rapid Response Unit members to respond to elephant crop foraging, in villages around Monte Alen National Park
We are monitoring levels of crop foraging in 15 villages around Monte Alen National Park, using a combination of camera traps and surveys
Tim is a conservationist who has worked across a variety of species in regions as diverse as deserts and tropical rainforests. His PhD focused on the origins, population dynamics, and genetics of threatened populations.
His expertise includes consideration of spatial and environmental influences on species distribution and delimitation, and more recently, acoustic analysis in conservation ecology.
Isabelle is an interdisciplinary conservationist specialising in human-wildlife coexistence. She has a background in anthropology and experience working in Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire.
Before joining Bristol Zoological Society, Isabelle worked for the UK government, where she managed high-value programmes and led conservation policy for a range of marine species.
Catherine is a Conservation Biologist specialising in community conservation. A member of the IUCN marine turtle specialist group, she has a background in marine biology working towards successful conservation outcomes with a variety of stakeholders (NGOs, governments and the tourism industry).
Catherine has spent the past 20 years working in Mexico and Latin America. Before joining BZS, she completed a postdoc on sea turtles and tourism and was the program director for ocean health and blue economy at a Mexican research centre.
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