Dr Thomas Doherty-Bone

Conservation Associate

Location Mount Oku, other localities in Cameroon; Budongo Forest, Uganda

Related Projects

Conservation of amphibians in Africa
Mount Oku, Cameroon; Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda

Research interests

Thomas manages the Conservation Research and Action for Amphibians of Uganda and Cameroon (CRAAUC) Project. This project was founded after an RZSS funded expedition to Cameroon in 2006.

Thomas' work covers the following topics:

Amphibians as umbrellas for sustainable environmental management;
Building capacity for sustainable environmental management in West and Central Africa;
Amphibian decline crisis - causes and consequences;
Freshwater ecology;
Alien invasive species - ecological impacts, mitigation and public understanding [topic of his UK-based PhD at the
University of Leeds, with applications to work in Cameroon.
Reptile ecology and conservation