Sian Waters Consulting
  • About Me
  • Services
  • Communications
  • Contact

Communications

Human-Primate Interactions
Waters S, Setchell JM, Marechal L, Oram F, Cheyne SM. 2022. The IUCN Best Practice Guidelines One Year On: Addressing Some Questions and Encouraging Primatologists to be Responsible Messengers
Published in Primate Eye 136 February. 

Daniels C, Cheyne SM, Waters S. & Svensson MS. 2021. Professional primate keepers and online primate imagery: An assessment of knowledge and attitudes. JZAR 9:4 

Waters S, Setchell JM, Marechal L, Oram F, Wallis J, & Cheyne S. 2021. IUCN Primate Specialist Group Section for Human-Primate Interactions
 Best Practice Guidelines for Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates. 
​​
​Waters S, El Harrad A, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2021. Decolonizing primate conservation practice: A case study from north Morocco. International Journal of Primatology.

​​Waters S, El Harrad A, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2019. Interpreting people's behavior toward primates using qualitative data: a case study from North Morocco. International Journal of Primatology 40:316-330.

Waters S, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2018. Understanding human-animal relations in the context of primate conservation: A multispecies ethnographic approach in north Morocco. Folia Primatologica 18:13-29. 

Dore KM, Radford LM, Alexander S & Waters S. 2018. Ethnographic approaches in primatology. Folia Primatologica 18: 1-17. 
​

Maldonado, AM & Waters S. 2020. Ethnoprimatology of the Tikuna in the southern Colombian Amazon. In: 
B. Urbani & M Lizarralde (eds) Neotropical Ethnoprimatology: Indigenous People’s Perceptions of and Interactions with Nonhuman Primates, Springer pp. 89-107.

Radford LM, Alexander S & Waters S. 2018. On the rocks: Using discourse analysis to examine relations between Barbary macaques and people on Gibraltar. Folia Primatologica 18: 30-44. 

Setchell JM, Fairet EM, Shutt K, Waters S & Bell S. 2016. Biosocial conservation: Integrating ecological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions. International Journal of Primatology 38:401-426.

Primate Trade Issues
Norconk MA, Atsalis S, Tully G, Santillan AM, Waters S, Knott CD, Ross SR, Shanee S & Stiles D. 2019. Reducing the primate pet trade: Actions for primatologists. American Journal of Primatology 82:

​Bergin D, Atoussi S & Waters S. 2018. Online trade in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in Algeria and Morocco. Biodiversity and Conservation  27:531-534 

Maldonado AM & Waters S. 2017. Primate Trade (Neotropics). In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley.

Waters S & El Harrad A. 2013.  A note on the effective use of social media to raise awareness against the illegal trade in Barbary macaques African Primates 8:67- 68

Conservation Translocations & Rewilding
Consortes-McCrea A, Kolipar S, Owen JR, Ruiz-Miranda CR. 2022. Guidelines to facilitate human-wildlife interactions in conservation translocations. Frontiers in Conservation Science. Research Topic: Human dimensions of animal translocations.

Waters, S., Hobbelink, M-E & Hill, C.M. 2007. Local awareness of the swift fox reintroduction program in northwestern Montana, USA. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 12:295.

​Dogs and Primates
Waters, S, El Harrad A, Chetuan M, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2017. Dogs disturbing wildlife: Domestic dogs harass and kill Barbary macaques in Bouhachem forest, north Morocco. African Primates 12:55-58.

Waters S, Watson T, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2018. Communicating for conservation: Circumventing conflict with communities over domestic dog ownership in north Morocco. European Journal of Wildlife Research 64:69 

Miscellaneous Publications
​

Hansen MF, Kalen AK, Riley EP, Waters S. 2022. Evaluating the need to habituate: Modern approaches to field primatology during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Primate Conservation 36

Waters S, El Harrad A, Chetuan M & Amaouch Z. 2015. Barbary macaque group size and composition in Bouhachem forest, north Morocco. African Primates 10:53-56.
​
Waters, S. & El Harrad, A. 2018. New location for the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in the catchments of the western Rif Mountains, Morocco. IUCN Otter Specialist Group Bulletin 35:230-234 .
 

Waters S, El Harrad A, Amaouch Z, Taiqui L & Senn HS. 2015 . DNA analysis confirms African wolf (Canis lupaster) in Morocco. Canid Biology and Conservation 18 (5):15-17.
 
Waters, S. 2015. Crop-raiding Baird’s tapir provoke diverse reactions from subsistence farmers in Belize. Tapir Conservation 24:8-10.  

Social Media

​An interview about my ethnographic approach to conservation in Mongabay. 
​

Featuring our work with the illegal trade in Barbary macaques in Middle East Eye.  

About our conservation work in Morocco in Spanish.  



Picture
Picture

Contact Me

Submit
  • About Me
  • Services
  • Communications
  • Contact