Since the last post we’ve conducted two fieldwork trips to Lobeke National Park. Fair to say it’s pretty out of … More
Author: Simon Hoyte
Simon is an environmental anthropologist with ExCiteS, working to understand the relationship between Central African hunter-gatherers and their rainforest and developing an Indigenous-led participatory approach to conservation
Participatory mapping, led by students and experts from across Central Africa
by Simon Hoyte The ambition of Extreme Citizen Science and our mapping tool Sapelli has always been to co-develop projects … More
IN.FOR.BIO – our new 6-year One Health project
By Simon Hoyte & Jerome Lewis The world is waking up to the deep connection between human, animal, plant, and … More
A desert as a garden: The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Marrakech, Morocco
With every conference of the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) that I attend, I increasingly realise how unique and remarkable … More
Supporting a Third Space – our ECSAnVis Final Event
Yesterday we hosted the final event for our 5-year European Research Council-funded project Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis and Visualisation. And … More
Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis and Visualisation final event – join us!
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to an event that the Extreme Citizen Science research group is … More
Decolonising paradise: The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Kingston, Jamaica
I’ve just returned from the Society for Economic Botany & International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) conference at the University of … More
Decolonising protected areas: Sapelli in eastern Cameroon
Whilst being initially hesitant to work in this controversial and problematic context, I decided that this was an opportunity to initiate change, whereby the voices and values of the Baka could be taken seriously
Is Sapelli just a tool?
In a recent interview I conducted with the director of an international NGO here in Cameroon who is familiar with … More
“We are weeping with our knowledge of the forest”
I have been living with the Baka, one of Central Africa’s hunter-gatherer groups, for the last 5 months. As an … More
