University of Kent

Dr Alison Rosser   Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation Convenor, MSc in Conservation and International Wildlife Trade Undergraduate Admissions Officer
Room: 176 E-mail: A.M.Rosser Extension: 3051

CV
2005 - Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation, DICE.
1995 - 05 IUCN SSC Wildlife Trade Programme Officer.
1992 - 95 National Representative establishing TRAFFIC Tanzania Office.
1987 - 91 Part time Environmental Consultant & PGCE.
1981 - 87 PhD, Behavioural Ecology, University of Cambridge
1981 - 81 Biological Assistant Newcastle University, BAS & SMRU
1979 - 80 MSc in Ecology, University of Durham
1976 - 79 BA (Hons), Zoology, University of Cambridge

Research interests

Alison Rosser joined DICE to develop a new programme on conservation and international wildlife trade. Her masters on the feeding ecology of mink in the UK, led on to a Cambridge University doctoral investigation of the mating system and ecology of an African antelope, the puku, in Zambia. She then moved to the NGO sector and was the first country representative for TRAFFIC in Tanzania. She has since run the Wildlife Trade Programme of IUCN's Species Programme, responsible for much of IUCN's input to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Her research interests include investigating means to ensure that use of wild species will be sustainable and developing pragmatic methods to support conservation decision-making.

External Activities

Advisory

2001 IUCN-FAO Wildmeat and Livelihoods Workshop Committee

2001-2004 Precautionary Principle Project Steering Comittee

2003-2004 Sustainable Use Project Steering Comittee

2003-2004 Revision of Guidelines for Conservation of Medicinal Plants Steering Committee

Invitations

2004 CITES-CBD Synergy Meeting in Germany

2006 CITES and Livelihoods Workshop in South Africa

2007 IUCN-SSC Sustainable Use Specialist Group meeting in Florida

2007 Non-Detriment Finding Workshop for Indonesia

Editorial

2008-2010 Editorial Board Member Biodiversity and Conservation

Teaching

MSc in Conservation and International Wildlife Trade
DI872 International wildlife trade: regulatory mechanisms (Convenor)
DI871 International wildlife trade: achieving sustainability (Convenor)
DI873 International wildlife trade: the role of policy and legislation

BSc in Biodiversity Conservation & Management
DI516 Behavioural Ecology (Convenor)

Selected publications (click here for full list)

Rosser, AM (2009). The Regulation of Hunting.  In Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: science and practice, edited by B Dickson, JM Hutton, WM Adams, in press. Oxford: Blackwells.

Rosser, A.M. and Harrop, S.R. (2007) Approaches to sustainable use: CITES non-detriment findings and CBD sustainable use principles. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 10, in press.

Rivalan, P, Delmas, V, Angulo, E, Bull, LS, Hall, RJ, Courchamp, F, Rosser, AM and Leader-Williams, N (2007). Can bans stimulate wildlife trade? Nature, 447, 529-530.

Rosser, A.M. and Mainka, S.A. 2002. Overexploitation and species extinctions. Conservation Biology 16, 1523-1739.