Joshua is a conservation biologist, with research interests in human-wildlife conflict, wildlife trade and conservation geopolitics. Josh is currently completing his PhD at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and UCL, on the potential for transboundary conservation of large carnivores in north-east Asia, has just finished a stint at Seoul National University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and is now a visiting researcher at the Tiger and Leopard Conservation Fund in Korea (KTLCF).
Josh holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, where he was a Thouron Scholar, before going on to complete a Churchill Fellowship looking at innovative practice in island conservation in the South Pacific and South Atlantic. His most recent scientific article was on the impact of expedition tourism in the Arctic.
Josh is a National Geographic Explorer 2018 and one of the faces of #WWFVoices for WWF.