In this webinar, Hayley Clements reflects on the under-representation of women amongst the African biodiversity experts that have contributed to this project.
I am the regional ecologist for South-Eastern KwaZulu-Natal at Ezemvelo KZN Wildllife and a honorary research fellow at the Centre for Functional Biodiversity at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. My current research entails ‘an assessment of the effects of land-use and climate change on the avian, mammalian and plant functional and taxonomic communities in KwaZulu-Natal province’.
Habitat degradation not only affects biodiversity but also has a negative impact on human livelihoods and subsequent well-being as it influences peoples capacity to live sustainably.
Yvonne A. de Jong (PhD) is a Kenya-based Dutch primatologist who has worked in Africa since 2002. She is the co-leader of the Eastern Africa Primate Diversity and Conservation Program, member of three IUCN/SSC Specialist Groups (Primates, Afrotheria and Wild Pigs), member of the Nocturnal Primate Research Group at Oxford Brookes University, collaborating Scientist of the Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi and member of the Primate Task Force of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Her main research focus is the biogeography, diversity and conservation of eastern Africa’s primates and several other groups of large mammals, including the warthogs (Phacochoerus) and dik-diks (Madoqua).
