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Time for an update! After meeting up with Hadi yesterday, I spent this morning briefing the rangers on the methods we will be using in the study. Simple questions, such […]
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Masters Research: The Gist
Pastoral farming in Dhofar is made possible by the favourable climatic conditions caused by the Indian monsoon. From June to September low cloud and mist form against the southern mountain […]
Masters Research in Oman
Socio-ecological coincidence of livestock grazing activity with biodiversity distributions at Wadi Sayq, Dhofar Governorate, Oman The unique and biodiverse ecosystems of the Dhofar Mountains are threatened by large numbers of […]
In Search of the Arabian Leopard: A Photostory – Part 2
Click here to read Part 1… During the winters of 2012 and 2013 I spent a total of 10 weeks exploring a vast wadi system in the Dhofar Province of […]
In Search of the Arabian Leopard: A Photostory – Part 1
During the winters of 2012 and 2013 I spent a total of 10 weeks exploring a vast wadi system in the Dhofar Province of Oman; known as Wadi Sayq. The […]
In the News
BIOSPHERE Magazine In the Mountains of Oman – In the field, with Lawrence Derek Ball Grazing threatening Dhofar Mountains ecosystem Wadi Sayq in Southern west of Oman an […]
Publications
Ball L, Tzanopoulos J (2020) Six new variants of the Terminalia cloud forest in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman, Phytocoenologia, doi: 10.1127/phyto/2020/0370 Ball L, MacMillan D, Tzanopoulos J, Spalton A, […]
Conservation
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin Accurately estimating the number of different species […]
Biography
I have always been a bit obsessed with the natural world and the outdoors. Much of my childhood was spent in the woods next to our home or in rockpools […]
In the Press – Muscat Daily & Times of Oman
A couple more Omani newspaper articles about the British Exploring Society Oman expeditions and the research we have undertaken in Wadi Sayq, Dhofar over the last couple of years. […]
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