Matt Walpole's publications

Journal articles

Sitati, NM, Walpole, MJ & Leader-Williams, N (2005). Factors affecting susceptibility of farms to crop raiding by African elephants: using a predictive model to mitigate conflict. Journal of Applied Ecology 42, 1175-1182.

Walpole, MJ & Thouless, CR (2005). Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use? Deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics. In People and Wildlife: conflict or co-existence?, ed by R Woodroffe, SJ Thirgood and A Rabinowitz, pp. 122-139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zimmerman, A, Walpole, MJ & Leader-Williams, N (2005). Cattle ranchers' attitudes to conflicts with jaguars in the Pantanal of Brazil. Oryx, 39, 406-412.

Walpole, M., (2004). Community scouts promote conservation and livelihood security in the Mara ecosystem, Kenya. Sustainable Development International 10, 119-121.

Walpole, MJ, Nabaala, M & Matankory, C (2004). Status of the Mara Woodlands in Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 42, 180-188.

Sitati, N.W., Walpole, M.J., Smith, R.J. & Leader-Williams, N. (2003). Predicting spatial aspects of human-elephant conflict. Journal of Applied Ecology 40, 667-677.

Smith, R.J., Muir, R.D.J, Walpole, M.J., Balmford, A. & Leader-Williams, N. (2003). Governance and the loss of biodiversity. Nature 426, 67-70.

Leader-Williams, N., Oldfield, T.E.E., Smith, R.J. & Walpole, M.J. (2002). Science, conservation & fox hunting. Nature 419, 878.

Walpole, M.J. (2002). Factors affecting black rhino monitoring in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 40, 18-25.

Walpole, M.J. & Leader-Williams, N. (2002). Ecotourism and flagship species in conservation. Biodiversity & Conservation 11, 543-47.

Walpole, M.J., Smith, R.J. & Leader-Williams, N. (2002). Species biology and conservation funding. Science 298, 1716.

Walpole, M.J. & Leader-Williams, N. (2001). Masai Mara tourism reveals partnership benefits. Nature 413, 771.

Leader-Williams, N., Smith, R.J. & Walpole, M.J. (2001). Elephant hunting and conservation. Science 293, 2203.

Walpole, M.J., Morgan-Davies, M., Milledge, S., Bett, P. & Leader-Williams, N. (2001). Population dynamics and future conservation of a free-ranging black rhinoceros population in Kenya. Biological Conservation 99, 237-43.

Walpole, M.J. (2001). Feeding dragons in Komodo National Park: a tourism tool with conservation complications. Animal Conservation 4, 67-74.

Walpole, M.J., Goodwin, H.J., & Ward, K.G.R. (2001). Pricing policy for tourism in protected areas: lessons from Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Conservation Biology 15, 218-27.

Walpole, M.J. & Goodwin, H.J. (2001). Local perceptions of ecotourism and conservation around Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Environmental Conservation 28, 160-6.

Walpole, M.J. & Goodwin, H.J. (2000). Local economic impacts of dragon tourism in Indonesia. Annals of Tourism Research 27, 559-76.

Walpole, M.J. (2000). GIS as a tool for rhino conservation. Pachyderm 28, 65-72.

Walpole, M.J. & Bett, P. (1999). The need for cross-border monitoring of the Mara rhinos. Pachyderm 27, 74.

Walpole, M.J. & Bett, P. (1999). An apparent decline in the Masai Mara black rhino population. Pachyderm 26, 123.

Walpole, M.J. & Sheldon , I.R. (1999). Sampling butterflies in tropical rainforest: an evaluation of a transect walk method. Biological Conservation 87, 85-91.

Honey R.C., Horn, G., Bateson, P. & Walpole, M. (1995). Functionally distinct memories for imprinting stimuli – behavioral and neural dissociations. Behavioral Neuroscience 109, 689-698.

Disney, R.H.L., Majerus, M.E.N. & Walpole, M.J. (1994). Phoridae (Diptera) parasitising Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). The Entomologist 113, 28-42.

Book chapters and reports

Walpole, M.J. & Thouless, C.R. (in press). Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use. In The Conservation of Wildlife that Conflicts with Man (Eds Woodroffe, R. Thirgood, S. & Rabinowitz, A.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Walpole, M.J. (2004). Tourism development strategy for Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. ORTPN, Kigali, Rwanda.

Walpole, M.J., Karanja, G.G., Sitati, N.W. & Leader-Williams, N. (2003). Wildlife & People: Conflict and Conservation in Masai Mara, Kenya. Wildlife and Development Series No.14, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.

Walpole, M.J. & Martyn, N. (2001). A Community Wildlife Survey of the Ololarriak-Paraikong area of Olderkessi and Naikarra Locations, Narok District, Kenya. Unpublished report, DICE, University of Kent, pp 23.

Walpole, M.J. (2001). Nature tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation in The Gambia. Unpublished report, Centre for Responsible Tourism, University of Greenwich, 17pp.

Goodwin, H.J., Kent, I.J., Parker, K.T., & Walpole, M.J. (1998). Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development: case studies from Asia and Africa. Wildlife and Development Series No.12, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.

Goodwin, H.J., Kent, I.J., Parker, K.T., & Walpole, M.J. (1997a). Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development: Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Department for International Development (DFID), London.

Goodwin, H.J., Kent, I.J., Parker, K.T., & Walpole, M.J. (1997b). Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development: Keoladeo National Park, India. Department for International Development (DFID), London.

Goodwin, H.J., Kent, I.J., Parker, K.T., & Walpole, M.J. (1997c). Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development: The South-east Lowveld, Zimbabwe. Department for International Development (DFID), London.

Goodwin, H.J., Kent, I.J., Parker, K.T., & Walpole, M.J. (1997d). Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development: Comparative report. Department for International Development (DFID), London.

Potts, F.C., Goodwin, H.J., & Walpole, M.J. (1996). People, Wildlife and Tourism in and around Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. In People and Tourism in Fragile Environments: 199-219. (Ed Price, M.). John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.