John F. McEvoy

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...

When I am not chasing elephants around in Myanmar or shaking my fist at my computer screen in Virginia as I try to make some R-code do...

To say that Mongolia has a conflicted relationship with wolves would be a massive understatement. While they hold strong cultural...

One half of my job here at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute involves working on Przewalski’s Horse (Equus ferus...

Earlier this year I began working at the Conservation Ecology Centre within the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. A large part...

Exciting news! I have just made a big move to lovely Virginia, USA and started a new post-doc at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology...

I have recently started on another exciting collaboration with my good friends and colleagues Yaara Aaron-Rotman and Lei Cao at the...

I have recently joined a team at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) to help analyse data from their Cattle, Land and Fire (CaLF)...

I've recently started collaborating on a fantastic project looking at the foraging behaviour and nesting success of endangered swift...

I recently published a paper with Paul McDonald and Graham Hall at University of New England in Australia where we evaluated the...

Another great collaboration that I'm lucky to be involved with is with Nurzhafarina Othman and Benoit Goosens at Cardiff University's...

I recently did a segment on an ABC radio show called "Creepy But Curious" where scientists from University of New England Talk about all...

A big part of my PhD work involved looking into potential cues for long distance movement in nomadic desert waterfowl. The arid...

Biodiversity East is a conservation NGO that brings together scientists working across the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. I am...

My colleague Raoul and I have a tradition of buying Kinder eggs while on the road. Given that our field trips have sometimes lasted two...