by Talking Humanities | Mar 3, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Professor Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, welcomes the news of a dip in the number of rhinos poached in South Africa and...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 7, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Research & Resources
Hyenas get a bad press. But they’ve found a champion in Professor Keith Somerville, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and fellow of the Zoological Society of London, who is on a mission to clean up their image. Watching the BBC’s...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 31, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
To protect people from the impact of climate change and bring about transformation, we need educational institutions to train a new breed of policymakers, managers and scientists who can ‘steer this planet towards less emissions and less waste, while creating...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 16, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Since the death of Cecil the lion at the hands of an American hunter, the issue of the best way to conserve increasingly threatened lion populations has become ever more controversial, says Professor Keith Somerville, whose new book, ‘Humans and Lions. Conflict,...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 12, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features
Image: Mother cheetah with two cubs in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area © Keith Somerville Professor Keith Somerville explores the decline of the cheetah, speed king of the cat family, and why more than a third of the entire wild population is located in...