Operation Wallacea
Fran Anderson is currently working as a Project Manager at Operation Wallacea, leading UK-based field courses at the Knepp Rewilding site in West Sussex. Prior to this role, Fran worked as a Sales Assistant at the same company, handling outreach to schools and universities globally. Fran also has experience as an Ecologist, conducting mammal and herpetofauna surveys at the Knepp Estate. Before joining Operation Wallacea, Fran worked as a Teambuilding Outdoor Activity Instructor at WISEUP TEAM BUILDING LIMITED, where they led teambuilding activities at schools across the UK. Fran holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology/Animal Biology from the University of Nottingham.
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Operation Wallacea
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects that operate in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. Large teams of university academics, who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies, are concentrated at the target study sites. Research Assistants and dissertation students joining the surveys have the option of customising their own itinerary from a range of training and science options. The surveys result in a large number of publications in peer-reviewed journals each year, have resulted in 30 vertebrate species new to science being discovered, 4 'extinct' species being re-discovered and $2 million levered from funding agencies to set up best practice management examples at the study sites. These large survey teams of academics and volunteers that are funded independently of normal academic sources have enabled large temporal and spatial biodiversity and socio-economic data sets to be produced, and provide information to help with organising effective conservation management programmes.