Dr Andrew Loveridge

Dr Andrew Loveridge is the Kaplan Senior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and the Wildlife Conservation Unit, Oxford University. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he read for his doctoral degree in Zoology at Oxford, and after graduating embarked on a career as an ecologist and conservationist. Since 1999 he has run a long-term African lion research and conservation project, initially based in hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, but now covering much of the southern part of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, under the banner of the Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme (TKPP). Over the last twenty years his research and conservation work on lions has encompassed lion population management, impacts of trophy hunting, socio-biology, behavior, predator-prey relationships, human-wildlife conflict and its mitigation landscape ecology, and trade. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. In 2012 he received the SATIB Trust Award for contributions to African Conservation. He is a member of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group, Canid Specialist Group and African Lion Working Group and the KAZA Carnivore Conservation Coalition.

Loveridge is an experienced editor and author, having co-edited Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids (OUP, 2010) and he serves as an Associate Editor for African Journal of Wildlife Research. He recently published an auto-biographical account of his research and conservation work, Lion-hearted (Regan Arts, New York 2018), which was included in the Forbes Ten of the Best Books About Climate Change, Conservation, and The Environment of 2018.