Dr. Franciany Braga Pereira

I am a biologist with a PhD in Zoology and currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). I also work as an Associate Editor for the journal Global Ecology and Conservation and as a lecturer in the Graduate Programme in Ecology at Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil).

My research agenda focuses on the impacts of extreme anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity, including armed conflict, oil exploitation, and wildlife trafficking. I investigate how these processes reshape ecosystems and affect species persistence, particularly in tropical regions. In parallel, I develop community-based wildlife management approaches that integrate local ecological knowledge with applied science to support conservation in socially and environmentally complex contexts.

News

Marie Currie Research Fellow

Congress IUCN 2025

Associate Editor of Global Ecology and Conservation Journal

Conferenses

Works

Works

Publications

Warfare-induced mammal population declines in Southwestern Africa are mediated by species life history, habitat type and hunter preferences

Congruence of local ecological knowledge (LEK)-based methods and line-transect surveys in estimating wildlife abundance in tropical forests

Global online trade in primates for pets

From spears to automatic rifles: The shift in hunting techniques as a mammal depletion driver during the Angolan civil war