C. Josh Donlan

C. Josh Donlan is an American ecologist and conservation practitioner who founded and leads Advanced Conservation Strategies (ACS).^[1] The environmental conservation NGO focuses on program design, sustainability sciences, and evaluation. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific and popular articles, some of them receiving widespread media attention.^[2] He is currently a Research Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He splits his time between the Wasatch Mountains and Andalucia.

Scientist and conservation practitioner Josh Donlan

Career history and awards

• 2008–2017: Visiting Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University^[3]
• 2012–2014: Invited Professor, University of South Paris, France
• 2011-2012: Visiting Professor, Universidad de Magallanes, Chile
• 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 2008: Selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 by Houghton Mifflin^[5]
• 2008: Conservation Fellow, The Kinship Foundation^[6]
• 2002: Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program^[7]
• 1998 Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellow^[8]

Selected works

• 2019: The characterization of seafood mislabeling: A global meta analysis^[9]
• 2019: Exploring the causes of seafood fraud: A meta-analysis on mislabeling and price^[10]
• 2015: A human-centered framework for innovation in conservation incentive programs^[11]
• 2015: Proactive Strategies for Protecting Species: Pre-listing Conservation and the Endangered Species Act ^[12]
• 2015: Incentivizing biodiversity conservation with artisanal fishing communities through territorial user rights and business model innovation ^[13]
• 2013: Gene tweaking for conservation ^[14]
• 2011: Archipelago-wide island restoration in the Galapagos Islands: Reducing costs of invasive mammal eradication programs and reinvasion risk ^[15]
• 2011: Paul S. Martin (1928-2010): Luminary, natural historian, and innovator^[16]
• 2011: Biodiversity offsets: an interim solution to seabird bycatch in fisheries? ^[17]
• 2010: A derivative approach to endangered species conservation ^[18]
• 2009: Debt investment as a tool for value transfer in biodiversity conservation ^[19]
• 2007: Restoring America’s big, wild animals ^[20]
• 2006: Pleistocene Rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation ^[21]
• 2005: Re-wilding North America ^[22]
• 2002: Golden eagles, feral pigs and island foxes: how exotic species turn native predators into prey ^[23]