Dr. Julie Garnier
Julie Garnier (Dr. Vre, D.Vet.Med, MRCVS) is a wildlife veterinarian with broad experience in wildlife management in Africa, scientific research on endangered species and development of community-based conservation projects. She was an Honorary Research Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), 1995 - 2004 and is now a ZSL Conservation Fellow.
She is a laureate of Maisons-Alfort National Veterinary School and worked in Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Zimbabwe before joining ZSL. She began there as assistant curator, focused on management of endangered species and clinical work. She moved to ZSL’s Conservation Programmes division and developed a comprehensive programme on black rhinoceros fertility in wild and captive populations in Zimbabwe. This ground-breaking conservation programme enabled the development of new technologies for managing rhinoceros reproduction and improvement of reproductive success of endangered species. Her post-doctoral thesis was published with the Royal Veterinary College in London, has presented a scientific papers and presentations at international conservation conferences. Her work has also been featured in various general press articles and TV programmes.
Julie and her husband Christopher Cox created the Cabo Delgado Biodiversity and Tourism Project in 1998. Their vision was primarily to conserve what they had found and create real benefits for the local populations, and she has developed scientific and community programmes for the project since 1998. She organized reconnaissance and exploratory surveys and handled conservation negotiations with the Mozambican ministries of Agriculture and Environment at provincial and national levels. Her ground-breaking programs - which include innovations such as turtle satellite tagging, conservation education for local communities, social projects to help communities improve conditions, human-animal conflict management, and capacity building initiatives to provide adequate resources to local governments for conservation self-management – have received international acclaim.