Josiane Segar

About Me

My project focuses on understanding which physical, ecological and socio-economic factors determine the chances of success for the recovery and rewilding of well-functioning, coherent ecosystems. I am based between Rewilding Europe’s head offices in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and the German Centre for Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany.

I graduated top of my year studying ecological and environmental science for my undergraduate, during which time I also worked for two summers on the American Prairie Reserve in Montana. I then spent a year living in Mexico where I worked as a research assistant at the faunal conservation lab at UNAM, continuing to focus on prairie landscapes and their conservation issues, most specifically on the mutualistic grazing patterns of prairie dogs and cattle in Janos, Chihuahua. It was during my master’s year at the University of Oxford that I concentrated my efforts on rewilding as an exciting opportunity for novel conservation approaches.

When I’m not obsessing over rewilding, I’ll be swing dancing, kickboxing, painting (badly) or singing.