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Dilys Roe

Principal researcher and team leader (biodiversity), Natural Resources

Dilys Roe leads IIED’s work on biodiversity and conservation. Her work focuses on the human dimensions of conservation – including understanding and supporting the necessary conditions for effective community-based conservation.
Full biography

A strong element of her current work is on engaging local communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade and, more broadly, enhancing community voices in conservation policymaking and strategies for linking biodiversity conservation with poverty reduction and social justice. 

Dilys is a member of the UK Government Darwin Expert Committee (DEC) and Illegal Wildlife Trade Advisory Group; the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) Science Advisory Council, and the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group. She is also a Fellow of the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Expertise

Linkages between biodiversity conservation and development/poverty reduction; pro-poor tourism; community-based conservation; biodiversity mainstreaming.

Before IIED

Education
PhD in biodiversity management from the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE).

Current work

Engaging local communities in sustainable wildlife management and tackling illegal wildlife trade; developing sustainable livelihood opportunities for park-adjacent communities; strengthening community voice in conservation policymaking; mainstreaming biodiversity values into development and climate change decision making

Dilys Roe's picture
Telephone: 
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
Email: 
dilys.roe@iied.org
Twitter: @dilysroe
Languages: English, French (basic)

Dilys Roe's projects

A man peers through the lens of a camera, while receiving advice from his colleague, another ranger

Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime

Project, Oct 2018
The meat from a duiker is prepared for a meal, close to the Dia Faunal Reserve, Cameroon (Photo: Stephanie Brittain)

Why eat wild meat?

Project, Sep 2018
A hippo in Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. IIED is helping the Uganda Wildlife Authority to address wildlife crime through community engagement (Photo: Mirko Eggert, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime

Project, Oct 2017
A mountain gorilla

Local economic development through gorilla tourism

Project, May 2016
Ladeh Panjang Wetlands. Photo: Luke Mackin

Building evidence on how biodiversity affects poverty

Project, Jun 2015
San peoples from the Kalahari have lived in harmony with nature, but their contribution to the conservation and sustainable uses of biodiversity lacks appropriate recognition, particularly in Botswana and South Africa (Photo: Harry Jonas)

Human rights standards for conservation: rights, responsibilities and redress

Project, Nov 2014
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Latest publications

Money where it matters for people, nature and climate: driving change through support for local level decision making over resources and finance

Proyectos alternativos a la carne de monte: guía práctica para el diseño de proyectos con estudios de caso de América Latina

Projetos alternativos ao consumo de carne de caça: guia prático com estudos de caso da América Latina

Mainstreaming nature in development: A brief guide to political economy analysis for non-specialists, UNEP-WCMC, UK

Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making

Priorities for draft 1 of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

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Dilys Roe's blog posts

Farmers looking at plants

Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative

Blog, Jan 2020
A herd of elephants (Photo: Sean Habig, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Biodiversity loss – more than an environmental emergency

Blog, Jul 2019
A mountain gorilla

Bwindi: bees, baskets and brilliant guided walks

Blog, Jun 2019
A fruit bat

Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue

Blog, Apr 2019
Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD

Blog, Nov 2018
An elephant feeds on Acacia trees in Kenya's Ol Kinyei Conservancy. The privately managed conservancy offers employment and training to local communities (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Turn up the volume: community voices on illegal wildlife trade

Blog, Oct 2018
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