Antony Lynam

Antony Lynam joined the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a New York-based international conservation agency, in 1996. An Australian national, he has >30 years of experience conducting research and using evidence-based approaches to advise wildlife conservation projects and initiatives in Australia, the United States (California), and Asia. Based in Bangkok, Thailand he coordinates the implementation of conservation technology field solutions for WCS. In a previous role he served as Regional Advisor for wildlife conservation projects in the Greater Mekong (Lao, Myanmar, Cambodia), Southeast Asian Archipelago (Philippines, Indonesia), South Asia and Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), and Temperate Grasslands (Mongolia) regions of Asia. He has designed training curricular and trained government research, wildlife and protected area staff, and university students in wildlife survey and monitoring, conservation and protection techniques. He helped organize some of the first multiagency wildlife law enforcement training courses in the region. He helps train and develop conservation capacity for local NGOs. He has written and helped implement recovery programmes for tigers, Asian elephants, and tapirs and recently served as the Subregional Support Officer to the CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme in Southeast Asia. He provided inputs to the IUCN Guidelines for Managing Wildlife Crimes in Protected Areas. He serves on the IUCN Cat Specialist Group. He leads the SMART Training Taskforce and has organized SMART training exercises globally. He serves as Co-chair of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) Asia – Pacific Chapter, and is President for the Society for Conservation Biology. He has written or contributed to over 60 peer-reviewed research and popular articles related to wildlife conservation. For more information see here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8395-7902