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johnfmcevoy
Jul 23, 20232 min read
New Publication: Treecreeper Torpor? Almost..
You may remember that I've been working on a collaboration with the amazing Yaara Aharon-Rotman and Christa Beckman on a project...
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johnfmcevoy
Jun 11, 20222 min read
New Publication: Joining the Dots in Myanmar's Wildlife Trade
In some previous work we carried out a survey of hunters and wildlife markets across Myanmar and found evidence of widespread hunting and...
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johnfmcevoy
Jun 3, 20221 min read
New Publication: GIS Standards for Tackling the Global Illegal Wildlife Trade
Some time ago I took part in an excellent workshop exploring ways to better utilise GIS data and analyses to understand and help tackle...
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johnfmcevoy
Apr 25, 20222 min read
New Publication: Going Green and Feeling the Heat – Migration decisions of passerine birds
I recently collaborated with the excellent Yaara Aharon-Rotman (rapidly becoming my most frequent co-author) on a new paper about...
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johnfmcevoy
Feb 8, 20221 min read
New Publication: Space Use by Elephants in Myanmar's Human-Wildland Interface
Our team of elephant researchers have come together to produce a new paper on the spatial ecology of Asian elephants in Myanmar. This...
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johnfmcevoy
Dec 17, 20212 min read
New Publication: Do small birds use torpor? Yes!
Over the last year I've been working with Yaara Aharon-Rotman and Christa Beckman on a project investigating the use of torpor (a kind of...
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johnfmcevoy
Sep 24, 20211 min read
New Job: Ecology at CSIRO
I just started and exciting new role with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). I will be...
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johnfmcevoy
Aug 29, 20214 min read
New Publication: Flying Foxes Going About Their Bat Business
Fruit bats play a vital role in tropical ecosystems as pollinators and seed dispersers but are also potential vectors of zoonotic...
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johnfmcevoy
Aug 8, 20212 min read
New Publication: Ungulate foraging - surf the green wave or stay close to water?
I was lucky enough to be invited as a co-author on a recent study by the excellent Dr. Saeideh Esmaeili at Colorado State University. We...
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johnfmcevoy
Apr 27, 20212 min read
New Publication: Good Times, Bad Times - Tracking Endangered Parrots in Tasmania
A little while ago I started a collaboration with my good friends and colleagues at Australian National University looking at the...
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johnfmcevoy
Mar 28, 20212 min read
New Job: Measuring Conservation Impact
I have just started an exciting new position with Bush Heritage Australia, one of the largest environmental NGOs in the country. Bush...
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johnfmcevoy
Feb 2, 20212 min read
New Publication: Capybara in Human Modified Landscapes
While at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute I had the great pleasure of working with Beatriz Lopez, one of the many interns...
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johnfmcevoy
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Project Update: Do small birds use torpor?
Back in July I spent a few weeks in the field with Yaara Aharon-Rotman working on a project investigating the use of torpor (a kind of...
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johnfmcevoy
Aug 20, 20201 min read
Talking Elephants at Deakin University
I was recently invited to give a seminar at the Centre for Integrative Ecology at Deakin University, Australia. I did my PhD at the CIE,...
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johnfmcevoy
Jul 22, 20203 min read
New Collaboration: Do small birds use torpor?
Dr Yaara Aharon-Rotman at the University of New England recently invited me to join her on a nifty project looking at torpor in small...
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johnfmcevoy
Sep 29, 20191 min read
Teaching Open Source GIS and Spatial Ecology
We just wrapped up a fantastic residential course for post-graduates and professionals at the Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation....
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johnfmcevoy
Aug 9, 20193 min read
New Publication: Illegal Wildlife Trade in Myanmar
Over the past year we have been working on a project to understand and map illegal hunting and trade of wildlife in Myanmar. We have just...
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johnfmcevoy
Jan 31, 20192 min read
New Publication: Australian Wood Ducks
​During my time at University of New England in Australia I worked on a waterfowl project with Paul McDonald and Graham Hall. We tracked...
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johnfmcevoy
Oct 1, 20182 min read
New Collaboration: One Parrot, Two Parrot, Red Parrot, Blue Parrot
I recently travelled to Campo Grande in Brazil to kick off a new collaboration with the Instituto Ara Azul (Hyacinth Macaw Institute)....
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johnfmcevoy
Aug 10, 20181 min read
Elephant Poaching Crisis Covered on National Television
Last night the excellent PBS Newshour ran a segment on our elephant project in Myanmar and on the horrific elephant poaching crisis being...
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