Lezing 'Proposal for a compassionate conservation law - Injecting compassion in EU nature conservation'

Daniel Ramp is the Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the transdisciplinary education and research department of the University of Technology in Sydney. Prof. Dr. Ramp is a conservation biologist with profound expertise in landscape ecology, behavioural ecology, road ecology, and wildlife-human interactions. At the core of his research lies an adoption of the principles of compassionate conservation, an expanding international discipline that promotes the wellbeing of individuals in environmental decision making. He is active in creating science that assists in policy change and his primary goal is to incentivise coexistence with wildlife in agricultural landscapes. Current research projects include (among others) ‘Compassionate conservation: Bringing individuals into conservation decision making’ and ‘Wildlife friendly farming: Helping farmers to benefit from protecting wildlife’.