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

Our team is pleased to be supporting two new, UK Governmented funded projects on envirionmetnal law: Environment And Biodiversity Law Education (EnABLE) Environmental law is central to biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource management and protecting human wellbeing. Operationalising legislation relies entirely on capable lawyers to forward cases, yet environmental law education is often absent or incomplete, and lawyers, prosecutors and judges are often ill-trained t

We are very pleased to announce that Conservation-Litigation.org is now officially registered as a non-profit foundation in the Netherlands. Evolving from our origins as a project based out of Lancaster University, this marks a significant step in our journey as an organisation and will allow us to strengthen our work to support plaintiffs around the world. We are especially appreciative of our inaugural Board members, Kevin Glass, Emily Coffey and Andrew Lemieux, who togeth

From Oct. 2023-Oct. 2025, I was based in Indonesia, working as Senior Technical Advisor to the Wildlife Conservation Society's Indonesia Programme . This drew on my years of scholar-practitioner work to support implementation of the new country strategy across WCS's terrestrial programmes: Forests, Wildlife Trade & Policy, Rights & Communities and One Health Approach. As of Oct. 2025, I am again based at Lancaster University.

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...