John Poulsen
Axe-throwing: Team building or team reduction?
The Tropical Ecology Lab went axe-throwing last night! Nobody lost a finger, or any other appendage. Jacob, holding the big axes, was the...
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John Poulsen
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Elephant mother carrying dead calf
I am shamelessly posting this Newsweek article in which I was quoted. Inspired by a picture of an elephant mother carrying her dead calf,...
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John Poulsen
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Field ecology in the modern age
The Poulsen Lab has an expensive new toy! Looking forward to getting it into the field eventually... to measure forest structure and...
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John Poulsen
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
Summer Research in Gabon
As part of Duke's Bass Connections program, a group of students, led by Dr. Vincent Maicher, traveled to Gabon to conduct research in the...
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John Poulsen
- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min
Mongabay Podcast on Elephants
August 12, 2021 is World Elephant Day! Listen to this Mongabay podcast about elephants. The podcast discusses the new short film ‘Shaba’...
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John Poulsen
- Jun 25, 2021
- 1 min
Gabon receives $17 million in forest payments
Gabon has received the first $17 million payment of a $150 million commitment from Norway for protecting its forests - the first such...
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John Poulsen
- Jun 25, 2021
- 1 min
Water, human activity and elephant personalities determine their movement patterns
We just published a paper on movement behavior of forest elephants in Gabon using the largest assembled dataset of GPS locations to date!...
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John Poulsen
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Mbamy Radio Talk!
Walter Mbamy defended his Master's thesis recently on the link between human activities and human-elephant conflict around Ivindo...
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John Poulsen
- Jul 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Conservation: Gabon's large trees
Please see the piece I just published in The Conversation regarding our research on forest carbon in Gabon. https://theconversation.com/g...
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John Poulsen
- Jul 14, 2020
- 1 min
Africa's biggest trees
See Anna Nordseth's latest blog on the importance of large trees in Gabon!
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John Poulsen
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Where the wild things are
Graden Froese caught this gorgeous leopard on a camera trap in northern Gabon.
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John Poulsen
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Stop unregulated bushmeat trade to avoid the next Coronavirus
Coronavirus is wreaking havoc worldwide. Most Americans are stuck in their homes, concentrating on their families and maybe their local...
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Poulsen Ecology Lab
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
Postdoctoral Researcher Vincent Maicher joins the lab
Vincent Maicher is an insect ecologist, working in various Afrotropical countries during the past 6 years. He has focused his early...
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