A Substack to explore practical, science-based approaches to wildlife crime analysis and policing grounded in fieldwork, criminology, and spatial data.
In places where survival trumps conservation, rushing in with well-meaning projects can backfire, breeding resentment, inflating expectations, or even worsening threats to wildlife.
A quick happy update: The self-guided version of the conservation crime-science QGIS training I have been offering in guided sessions is now live: 8 modules + a full simulated protected-area dataset