We are pleased to annouce that three new AFOx Fellows will be joining ICCS as part of our UKRI GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub programme.

We have been working closely with The Africa Oxford Initiative to bring three Fellows to Oxford University. These Fellows will be part of the Trade programme and each will be working on a critical aspect of our wider research.

The ocean provides 170 million tonnes of fisheries and aquaculture products for human use each year, accounting for 17% of animal protein consumed globally.

Two years and a lifetime ago when we embarked as a community on a horizon scan process to identify possible game changing issues that would shape tomorrow’s decisions on illegal wildlife trade (IWT), Africa was growing at 3-5% annually and the continent’s leaders had just signed the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, setting out a path for free movement of goods and people across…

In 2018, I started studying shark and ray fisheries in Malvan, a fishing town on India’s west coast. I would visit the landing centre three times a week and record the sharks and rays present, which involved identifying the species (most of which have very minute differences between them), taking measurements of (often muddy and/or slimy) specimens and collecting fishing-related data from busy…

Hollie Booth's research focuses on understanding and balancing trade-offs for practical and ethical shark conservation in the coral triangle. 

Her World Oceans Day message