About the event

Dr Claire Cardinal conducts interdisciplinary research that integrates ecological and ethnographic methods to explore relationships between humans and other animals. Her recent work focuses on the interactions between people who live at the forest frontier in rural Madagascar and the wild mammals with whom they share the landscape. In this talk she will discuss the impacts of conservation initiatives on three groups of Malagasy mammal – subsistence farmers, lemurs and small carnivores – and highlight conflicts that arise from their sympatric relationships.

About the speaker

Claire is a Visiting Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer in Primatology at Oxford Brookes University. She originally trained as a Town and Country Planner and worked for two decades managing urban regeneration programmes in the north-east of England. Since making a career change into wildlife conservation 12 years ago, she has worked in zoos and animal rescue centres in the UK and tropics, conducted applied research in Asia and Madagascar, and graduated with a Master’s and PhD in Primate Conservation. She also has an accidental side-career as a Librarian.

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