Operation Wallacea
Joe England is a highly experienced ornithologist currently serving as the Lead Ornithologist at Operation Wallacea since June 2018. Previous roles include Assistant Warden at Alderney Bird Observatory and various positions at RSPB, including Kingsbrook Research Assistant and Field Fundraiser. Joe began a career in ornithology with initial positions as a Lead Ornithologist and Assistant Warden at Alderney Bird Observatory. In addition to ornithological work, Joe has experience in interior decoration and landscaping. Joe holds a degree from the University of Kent, attended from 2013 to 2016, and completed secondary education at King Edward VI Grammar School from 2005 to 2012.
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.