{"id":295,"date":"2024-02-16T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/?p=295"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:52:27","slug":"neil_burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/neil_burgess\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Neil Burgess<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\"><strong>Chief Scientist, UN WCMC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Neil is the Head of the Science Programme at UNEP-WCMC and a Professor at the Centre for Marcoecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has a long standing interest in the biogeography and conservation of African biodiversity. This has broadened in recent years to issues of the effectiveness and equity of protected areas and other conservation interventions, with regard to biological and human outcomes. He also has, and continues to, manage various forms of conservation projects in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/neil-burgess-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/neil-burgess-edited.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/neil-burgess-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/neil-burgess-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/neil-burgess-edited-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/task-force-members\/\">Back to Task Force Members<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Burgess Chief Scientist, UN WCMC Neil is the Head of the Science Programme at UNEP-WCMC and a Professor at the Centre for Marcoecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen. He has a long standing interest in the biogeography and conservation of African biodiversity. This has broadened in recent years to issues of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/neil_burgess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Task Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbf-task-force-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}