John F. McEvoy

I just started and exciting new role with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). I will be...

Fruit bats play a vital role in tropical ecosystems as pollinators and seed dispersers but are also potential vectors of zoonotic...

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...

A little while ago I started a collaboration with my good friends and colleagues at Australian National University looking at the...

I have just started an exciting new position with Bush Heritage Australia, one of the largest environmental NGOs in the country. Bush...

While at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute I had the great pleasure of working with Beatriz Lopez, one of the many interns...

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...

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,...

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...

We just wrapped up a fantastic residential course for post-graduates and professionals at the Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation....

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...

​During my time at University of New England in Australia I worked on a waterfowl project with Paul McDonald and Graham Hall. We tracked...

I recently travelled to Campo Grande in Brazil to kick off a new collaboration with the Instituto Ara Azul (Hyacinth Macaw Institute)....

Last night the excellent PBS Newshour ran a segment on our elephant project in Myanmar and on the horrific elephant poaching crisis being...

My very good friend and colleague Dr Adam Cardilini recently invited me to appear on his radio show/podcast on Melbourne’s 3CR Radio....

​On a recent work trip to Myanmar I decided to put the elephants to one side briefly and get mixed up in some bat business. Smithsonian...

On our last elephant trip we had a really awesome film crew from Smithsonian along with us. Roshan Patel and his team (Sally and Danny)...

Asian elephants live in the most densely human-populated areas on earth. Yet, in comparison to their more populous African cousins, we...

One of the chapters of my PhD has finally made it to the light of day after quite a few years in peer review hell. A lot of what we know...

My good friend and colleague Dr Yaara Aharon-Rotman was kind enough to invite me to collaborate with her on this work and it has just...