MSc Primate Conservation Oxford Brookes University

14/05/2026

Conservation and Culture Field Course Camp in Indonesia for 18-35 yrs - join an multi-national team for conservation

08/05/2026

In 2003 Sir David Attenborough received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from our university, for his significant contributions to, and understanding of, the natural world. A few years after that our Primate Conservation MSc cohort of 2007-2008 got to meet him😁 We wish you a very happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough, and thank you for all that you do and for being such an inspiration to us all!

01/05/2026

The new issue of our in-house journal Canopy is now available online🐒🥳 This is both a very exciting issue, celebrating the 25 years of our MSc, but it also with sadness we announce that this is our very last issue of Canopy.

A huge thank you to our editors Aquinnna Murphy, Michelle Coltrain and Linus Coppersthwaite who has put together an issue to showcase the incredible range of research that has been conducted by our MSc and MRes students over the years. And thank you to all our previous students contributing articles to this issue: Hannah Pike, Emma Ashman, Mary Swift, Catriona Jade Mills, Tesa Mendoza Blowey, Praneetha Monipi, Brittany Rapone, Mohammed Ismail, Megan McEveney and James Parsons.

Also, congratulation to the winner of alumni photo competition, here on the front cover of this anniversary issue of Canopy: Wilma, the bonobo, with the sun shining on her face through the trees.📸 ©Sofia Lunde Kjærland

👉You can find this issue, and all previous ones, here: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/study/subject-areas/social-sciences-geography-anthropology-psychology/geography-and-anthropology/primate-conservation/canopy

01/05/2026

International Macaque Week is here!

01/05/2026

In November it is time for the 10th Asian Primate Symposium, this time focusing on Ethical Interactions with Primates. It will be held at the Rainforest Discovery Centre,
Sandakan, Sabah

More info can be found here: https://aps2026sabah.my.canva.site/?fbclid=Iwb21leARhkVVjbGNrBGGRTmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpfQORTQCrgmYUky2AO52C-MratEp6pEwld5z6cgGsFZB0s3ViFiaTejlod6_aem_J4__4dpePJEQkHzP7FQ_oA

28/04/2026

We started off this academic year's Monday evening seminar series (also fondly known as Monkey Mondays) with an alumni (Sam Pottie), and we ended it this week with another alumni. From the same cohort of 2019-2020 nonetheless! Thank you Claire Mawdsley for presenting the fascinating research from your current PhD, on captive chimpanzees in a rescue centre, and for showcasing their weird and wonderful behaviours! The full talk is available to watch here. And with this we say thank you to everyone who has come to give a talk this year, and to everyone who has joined the seminars and our evenings in the pub after. Mondays are very special for us Primate Conservation people at Oxford Brookes University ☺️🐒

13/04/2026

More stories from our amazing alumni, celebrating our 25th year with us🎉 We are so proud of you all!

30/03/2026

The Primate Specialist Group, Section for Human-Primate Interactions is looking for range country human-monkey or lemur interaction specialists with 3+ years experience in the field. particularly in Madagascar and South America.

We are looking for range country human-monkey or lemur interaction specialists with 3+ years experience in the field. particularly in Madagascar and South America. This can range from topics such as human provisioning of primates;
Primates in social media and AI; primate tourism;
communication, media, journalism; Human behaviour change. If you think you might fit then please send me a direct message on [email protected]

30/03/2026

A big thank you yet again to Wild Futures Monkey Sanctuary in Cornwall, and especially Sarah Hanson and her colleagues for taking such good care of us over these couple of days, putting us to good work and for sharing your incredible expertise and knowledge with us! We always enjoy visiting you 🐒😁

29/03/2026

The definition of “human-wildlife coexistence” is presented in a new briefing document and it serves to clarify the position of the IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Specialist Group (HWCCSG), on what they mean by this term. Our Professor Kate Hill is one of the experts in this specialist group.

The definition and accompanying interpretative notes are grounded in analysis of a coexistence workshop convened for wildlife conservationists at Pathways Europe in 2024, and internal HWCCSG workshops, as well as the experience and work of Working Group members.

Further details are included in the document that can be found here: https://www.hwctf.org/policies