CONSERVATION
INTERESTS
Through
our role as faculty at McGill University and as Research Associates
of the Wildlife Conservation Society, we are actively involved
in a number different conservation efforts. Some
of these efforts are academic in nature (see Research Interests)
and are designed to provide managers with the information needed
to construct informed management plans, while others involve training
or are strictly applied. Given
the plight of tropical forest and aquatic systems and the animals
they support, much of our energy is directed towards conservation-oriented
efforts. Activities
we are currently engaged in include:
1)
Establishing linkages among the Ugandan Fisheries Resource Research
Institute, Makerere University, and the University of Florida
to promote training in “Conservation Science”.
2)
Investigating what determines the abundance of primate populations.
3)
Establishing a conservation education center on the shores of
Crater Lake Nkuruba, Uganda.
4)
Training of Ugandan students either in Uganda or at the University
of Florida.
5)
Working with Ugandan Fisheries Resources Research Institute to
predict future changes in the Lake Victoria System.
6) Initiating studies of tropical forest restoration
ecology to provide managers with the information to restore degraded
tropical forests.
7) Working
with the BBC, Florida Museum of Natural History, and other groups
to increase awareness about the conservation of tropical animals
and ecosystems.
8)
Establish a program in the Crater Lakes Region of Western Uganda
to link sustainable fisheries with management of the forested
watershed surrounding the lakes.
See
the following article for a discussion of my views on conservation:
Primate
Conservation in the New Millennium: The Role of Scientists.
C.A. Chapman and C. Peres. 2001.
Evolutionary Anthropology 10:16-33. (view
this paper)
