James Allan
Alum
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Amsterdam
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Allan14
Google Scholar citations: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=eyqOBrAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
James Allan grew up in Kenya where he was surrounded by wildlife and the outdoors. School holidays were spent on safari game driving with clients, discussing Africa’s conservation challenges around the campfire, and on walking safaris in some of Kenya’s wildest and most beautiful regions. This inspired him to pursue a conservation science Ph.D., and where better than at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
He worked with a fantastic group of scientists on diverse research projects including global cumulative threat mapping, conservation planning, sustainable use of wildlife, wilderness conservation, and World Heritage Conservation. At the site level, he worked with WCS Mozambique, helping develop land-use and conservation plans for the iconic Niassa National Reserve. Previously he worked with the African Conservation Centre in Kenya, on large carnivore conservation on community land.
Key Publications
Ward, M. S., Saura, S., Williams, B., Ramirez-Delgado, J. P., Arafeh-Dalmau, N., Allan, J. R., ... & Watson, J. E. (2020). Only ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is connected via intact land. bioRxiv.
Rehbein, J. A., Watson, J. E., Lane, J. L., Sonter, L. J., Venter, O., Atkinson, S. C., & Allan, J. R. (2020). Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas. Global Change Biology, 26(5), 3040-3051.
Lindsey, P., Allan, J., Brehony, P., Dickman, A., Robson, A., Begg, C., ... & Tyrrell, P. (2020). Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Nature ecology & evolution, 4(10), 1300-1310.
Allan, J. R., Watson, J. E., Di Marco, M., O’Bryan, C. J., Possingham, H. P., Atkinson, S. C., & Venter, O. (2019). Hotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates. PLoS Biol, 17(3), e3000158.
Jones, K. R., Venter, O., Fuller, R. A., Allan, J. R., Maxwell, S. L., Negret, P. J., & Watson, J. E. (2018). One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure. Science, 360(6390), 788-791.
Venter, O., Sanderson, E. W., Magrach, A., Allan, J. R., Beher, J., Jones, K. R., ... & Watson, J. E. (2016). Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation. Nature communications, 7(1), 12558.