Dr Jacob Phelps
The Conservation Governance Lab
at the Lancaster Environment Center

As of October 2023, I have moved to Indonesia and am working as Senior Technical Advisor to the Wildlife Conservation Society's Indonesia...

Alongside Orchid Societies from around the world, the IUCN SCC Orchid Specialist Group's Global Trade Programme is pleased to announce...

Lawyers, conservationists and scientists from nine countries meet to share progress and develop legal strategies to remedy harm to nature...

Precedent-setting case protects threatened cacti and secures remedies for environmental harm Ancona, Italy, 10 February 2025 – Two...

I am pleased to be working with Rika Fajrini and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law's Biodiversity Law Specialist Group to...

Read our "Year in Review" for 2023 for the work we are doing with Conservation-Litigation.org.

We have draw on our research to support a new, free online curriculum for judges – developed by UNEP, IUCN’s World Commission on...

I was pleased to help welcome the Indonesian Supreme Court's National Environmental Working Group and the Indonesian Center for...

Lawyers, conservationists, scientists and economists from around the world begin five precedent-setting cases, as part of a green wave of...

Around the world, nature and people already have considerable existing legal rights – but many of these are never put into practice. ...

DLA Piper, one of the world’s leading law firms with offices in 40+ countries, warns corporations that they face an increasing risk of...

Wildlife crime is one of the biggest illegal businesses in the world. Join us on a global tour as we uncover its dark underbelly. In...

Jacob joins London's Natural History Museum's Nature Live Online team to discuss how the law should handle those who poach, pollute or...

Meet the 2021 Nepal Conservation Research Fellows: Arati Shrestha, Ashmita Shrestha, Mahesh Poudel and Sujita Dhakal. Over the next two...

This short animation tells the story of Pongo, an Orangutan caught for the illegal wildlife trade. It describes how a conservation...