Barriers to more and better translocations

Conservation translocations, the human-mediated movements of living organisms for conservation purposes, have become widely implemented measures to address the ongoing global biodiversity crisis. They are particularly important in islands such as Britain, but are often complicated by ecological, social, political and cultural challenges. Whilst the discipline of reintroduction biology has developed in the last three decades, we lack integrated and systematic approach to conceptualising, implementing and investigating translocations. The purpose of this project it to understand and analyse the main barriers and opportunities to doing more, and better, conservation translocations in England. This will consider the ecological, social, political, biological, cultural and economic factors, and how they interact.