Dr Tatyana Humle

About

Dr Tatyana Humle, coordinator of the IUCN ARRC (Avoid, Reduce, Restore and Conserve) Task Force and a senior associate of the US-based NGO Re:wild and honorary research fellow with the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, UK.
Dr Tatyana Humle has a BSc degree in Zoology from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from the University of Stirling in Scotland, UK. She has had a diverse academic career, as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA from 2004-2007, which was followed by a stint as associate professor at the University of Kyoto, Japan between 2007-2010. She joined the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, UK, in 2010 and the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent in 2012. She stepped down as head of school in 2022 to act as coordinator of the IUCN ARRC Taskforce. This Task Force, which sits within the Species Survival Commission and Primate Specialist group of the IUCN, was created in 2019 to independently advise large-scale development projects impacting great apes within the extraction, renewable, agribusiness sector, to encourage best practices and improve standards and to enhance the capacity of primatologists in great ape range states to better advise the private sector. Tatyana supervises the Primate WATCH program which was developed by the ARRC Task Force and aims to strengthen the capacity of primatologists from ape range countries to advise and interact with the private sector to improve the mitigation of their impacts on apes
Tatyana has in-depth knowledge of biodiversity conservation, interdisciplinary research and the challenges of reconciling large-scale development and conservation. She has many years of experience working with chimpanzees in West Africa, primarily in Guinea since 1995. Her research has primarily focused on better understanding chimpanzee culture and factors influencing coexistence between humans and wildlife, particularly great apes and the drivers of wildmeat trade and consumption in West Africa. She has been an active member of the IUCN/Species Survival Commission (SSC)/Section for Great Apes (SGA) since its inception and is the current Vice President for Conservation of the International Primatological Society (IPS). Aside from numerous peer reviewed articles and other publications (Google scholar link), she also co-edited and helped coordinate the drafting of the Regional action plan for the conservation of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) 2020–2030 on behalf of the SGA and is a co-author of the IUCN Best Practices concerned with addressing human-great ape coexistence. She is also a member of the implementation committee for the Western Chimpanzee Conservation Alliance where she co-chair the section on chimpanzee-people interactions.