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Lab foraging trip for waxcap mushrooms Lake District, UK (Dec. 2022)

Pleased to have Abdul Mutolib visiting from Siliwangi University Lancaster, UK (Nov. 2022)

Looking for orchids in Nepal with Reshu and Kumar Panchase, Nepal (Sept. 2022)

Kumar Paudel & Jacob Phelps Ribblehead Viaduct, UK (Dec. 2019)

University & College Union Strike Lancaster, UK (Nov. 2019)

WILDS Project workshop Jakarta, Indonesia (Nov. 2019)

Participants at the workshop "Conceptualising harm and damage claims for biodiversity" Low Annat Walls Farmhouse in Alston, UK (April 2019)

Organising Committee for Evidence-to-Action: Research to Address Illegal Wildlife Trade (Oct. 2018)

Nepal Conservation Research Fellows activity on developing research questions that are policy-relevant Kathmandu, Nepal (Jan. 2018)

With the Greenhood Nepal team Kathmandu, Nepal (Jan. 2018)

Jacob speaking at Side Event at CITES Plants Committee 23 Geneva, Switzerland (July 2017) (Credit: D.Challender)

MRes students, Rebecca Turley and Emily Malsack, in a group photo after their presentation in the municipal hall of the Local Government, Calatagan, Philippines. Pictured here are aquarium fishers, barangay counsellors, the municipal mayor and two representatives from the Municipal Agricultural Office Calatagan, Philippines (July 2017)

Aquarium fish collectors' boats Calatagan, Philippines (June 2017) (Credit: R.Turley)

Firefish Gobbies (Nemateleotris magnifica) Calatagan, Philippines (June 2017) (Credit: R.Turley)

Kumar Paudel, our Research Associate from Nepal, visits the lab Lancaster (May 2017)

Lab dinner at Jacob's house Hornby, Lancaster (Jan 2017)

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment features our review on wildlife trade (Nov. 2016)

Amy Collis and Jacob Phelps at CITES 17th Conference of Parties Sandton, South Africa (Sept. 2016)

The new lab. Left to right: Sophie Banks, Jacob Phelps, Evie Scott, Martino Kitio, Elysia Ratcliffe. The Sun, Lancaster (March 2016)

Sophie and Jacob at the CITES 66th Standing Committee Meeting. Geneva (Jan. 2016)

Rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) Ujong Kulong National Park, Indonesia (2015)

Wild orchids (Habenarea carnea) in trade in Thailand Bangkok, Thailand (2013)

Fieldwork with Dan Friess Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (Aug. 2015)

Ted Webb (left) and Duan Biggs (right) at workshop on "Typologies for understanding the illegal wildlife trade" Bogor, Indonesia (Nov. 2014)

Water monitor (Varanus salvatore) for sale alive, for meat at market on Thailand-Lao PDR border (2012)

Wild frogs for sale as meat Thailand-Lao PDR border (2011)

Krakatoa Volcano slowly reforming Indonesia (2015)

Jacob at a wild plant market on the Thailand-Myanmar border (2011)

Hundreds of wild orchis (Geodorum recurvum) for sale at a Bangkok market Bangkok, Thailand (2012)

Jacob Phelps with Ph.D. Supervisor, Ted Webb Singapore (2010)