Previous Seminars

This section lists speakers and the titles of their presentations from our seminars.

Autumn 2005

Andy Fisher – Metropolitan Wildlife Crime Unit
Talk – Wildlife Crime in the UK and the role of the Wildlife Crime Unit
George Bumann – Yellowstone Association Institute
Talk - Ecology in Action – ‘The Yellowstone Experience’

Spring 2005

Zanete Andersone-Lilley. Project Manager, Latvian State Forestry Research Institute
Talk - ‘large carnivores in the Baltic: their status and co-existence with humans’
Elena Tsingarska. Biologist with the Balkani Wildlife Society
Talk - ‘wolves & large carnivores in Bulgaria’.

Autumn 2004

John Denness – UKWCT
Talk – The European pack, from birth to adulthood
Dr Jorgelina Marino – Ecologist for the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme
Talk – Highland Gods: Ethiopian wolves’ perilous existence in Afro alpine enclaves

Spring 2004

Monty Sloan – Wolf Park USA
Talk – De-listing of wolves from endangered species act, the killing of wolves in Alaska and his recent trip to Yellowstone
Dr Wlodek Jedrzejewski – Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
Talk – Ecosystem, European wolves and the polish population

Autumn 2003

Emre Can – Wildlife Officer for WWF – Turkey
Talk – The wolf in Turkey
Dr James Halfpenny – Ecologist, Yelowstone area, USA
Talk – Status and behaviour of wolves in Yellowstone

Summer 2003

Carter Niemeyer – U.S Fish and Wildlife Services, Wolf Recovery Co-ordinator for the Western USA
Talk – Wolves in the USA
Linas Balciauskas – Head of Ecology Biodiversity research in Vilnius, Lithuania
Talk – The wolf situation in Lithuania

Winter 2002

Ed Bangs – U.S Fish and Wildlife Services, Grey Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the North Western US
Talk – Restoring wolves in the NW USA
Dr John Linnell – Senior Scientist with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Talk – Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? The ecology and bio politics of wolf conversation in Norway
Guillaume Chapron – PhD Student in Carnivore population dynamics, France
Talk – Population viability analysis

Summer 2002

Yadvendradev V. Jhala – Wildlife Institute of India
Talk – Wolves in India
John Shivik – USA
Wolves in the USA – New approaches to managing conflicts with humans

Spring 2002

Shaun Ellis – Wolf Behaviourist, (UK)
Monty Sloan – Wolf Park (USA)
Dee Woodcock – Dog Behaviourist
Talk – Pack, What Pack?
Annette Mertens
Talk – Wolves in the Carpathian Mountains

Autumn 2001

Adrian Treves – PhD student from Harvard
Talk – Wolves and Livestock: Problem packs and vulnerable farms in North America
Zanete Andersone – University of Latvia
Talk – Wolves in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
Marco Musiani
Talk – Hunting and Migration of Northern Canadian wolf populations and barriers
Aleks Pluskowski – PhD student, Cambridge University
Talk – Changing Symbolism of the wolf in human cultures
Lisa Wallis - BSc, UKWCT
Talk – Captive wolf behaviour

Autumn 2000

Danny Winters – Head Wolf Keeper, Paradise Park, (UK)
Talk – Wolves in Paradise
Phil Temple – Prison Drug Dog Handler, (UK)
Talk - Working dogs
Christoph Promberger – Carpathian Large Carnivore Project
Talk – Large carnivores and the people in the Romanian Carpathians