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Simon Hedges
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Conservationist for >30 years most of them spent working on human-wildlife coexistence and focused on elephants (and Banteng, Dhole, et al.) with WCS, IUCN, & CITES/MIKE. Now at ZSL working to maximize impact; views my own, https://linktr.ee/simonhedges1
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And here's the graphical abstract from our paper on human-elephant conflict risk mapping

#risk #models #elephants
July 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Durham Uni study finds chimpanzees more empathetic than assumed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I fear you may be right but hope you're not. It could also be a lack of PI (Political Intelligence) per the last but one Private Eye. (I'm a subscriber, so hopefully ok to post this photo.)
February 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Just found this photo of me and some of the WCS Malaysia team discussing the finer points of #elephant dung classification during the CITES/MIKE baseline #survey in Malaysia's Taman Negara. (August 2006. I think Melvin Gumal took the photo.)
February 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM