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Dr. Natalie Yoh is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent, currently working on the UKRI-funded Wildlife Consumption in Urban Tropical Africa programme led by Dr. Daniel Ingram, focusing on wild meat consumption across West and Central Africa.
She earned her PhD from DICE in 2022 on "The use of bioacoustics for bats in Borneo", preceded by an MSc and BSc from the University of Salford investigating Amazonian bat habitat fragmentation. Prior to her current role, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's SoundForest Lab.
Her research integrates conservation biology, tropical ecology, and bioacoustics to examine land-use change impacts on vertebrates (especially bats), wildlife monitoring techniques, and equity in conservation. Current work analyzes socio-cultural, economic, and ecological drivers of urban wildlife trade in tropical Africa.
Recent publications reveal a methodological emphasis on acoustic monitoring and time-series analysis to assess biodiversity impacts from logging, hunting, and renewable energy development across Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Americas, with growing contributions to equity in conservation publishing.
Funded by NERC for her PhD and UKRI for her current role, she serves as Assisting Editor for the Journal of Bat Conservation & Research and co-chairs the British Ecological Society ALDER Network (LGBTQ+ Network). She also consults part-time at the University of Oxford on academic publishing equity with Dr. Diogo Veríssimo.
Her work involves the SoundForest Lab, Leverhulme Tropical Defaunation Hub, and WILDMEAT Project, with field experience spanning Western Europe, Central/South America, Southeast Asia, and Western Africa.
