Alexander Richard Braczkowski

I am a career conservation biologist with strong interests in applied conservation science, large mammals, and collaborative projects.

My PhD examined the status and conflict of African leopards, spotted hyenas and lions in two regions of southwestern Uganda. I have a particular affinity for large felids and have been lucky to film and study leopards, lions, and jaguars across three continents and in seven field sites.

My current work examines how bringing people from differing industries and backgrounds together under the framework of scientific monitoring can lead to strong conservation and policy outcomes at national scales. One case study I recently led brought together over 100 Ugandan and international collaborators together under the umbrella of the Ugandan Government to perform a national census of African lions and large carnivores. In just 15 months our monitoring teams ran five collaborative workshops, surveyed over 15 000 km2 of protected area land, and delivered the status results of these surveys into Ugandan policy through the creation of the new Strategic Action Plan for Large Carnivore Conservation (2023-2033). My goal is to scale such examples across other African states, and locally in Australia using dingoes as a model. My recent fundraising successes have included grants from the Lion Recovery Fund, SUSTech University Shenzhen, National Geographic, Siemiatkowski Foundation, and Griffith University.

When I am not engaging in science I am communicating my fieldwork in the form of still and moving pictures and I have delivered films and magazine stories for outlets such as Disney Plus (Tree Climbing Lions), National Geographic (Return to Uganda and Leopards at the Door), the Guardian (The cat's whiskers: new way of counting lions could boost conservation efforts), Men's Health (World's Best Jobs), BBC Wildlife Magazine (Three legged lion), and Forbes (Can trophy hunting save animals).

I am open to collaborations and supervisory assignments with potential students and colleagues and am happy to chat on Zoom.

Professional Memberships
2023 - present: Society for Conservation Biology
2022 - present: Uganda Wildlife Authority Technical Team on Large Carnivore Conservation
2022 - present: African Lion Working Group

Academic Qualifications
2020 - PhD Environmental Science, University of Queensland
2014 - MSc Zoology, University of Oxford (Balliol)
2011 - PGDip Conservation Practice, University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall)
2010 - NDip Nature Conservation, Nelson Mandela University

Communication Profiles
Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=hnAe1zYAAAAJ&hl=en
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-braczkowski-61010b42/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexbraczkowski/?hl=en