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Professor Rhys E. Green
Professor Rhys Green gained a BA in Zoology and a PhD in
Applied Biology from the University of Cambridge where he
has been Professor of Conservation Science in the Zoology
Department since 2006. After completing his PhD he worked
for the Game Conservancy for four years on the ecology of grey
and red-legged partridges, subsequently joining the RSPB as a
research biologist in 1982. He became RSPB’s Principal Research
Biologist in 1993, a role that he retains to date.
Rhys has worked on a wide variety of research topics, from the
effects of climate change on geographical range and population
processes, to thedevelopment of techniques for practical habitat
management and the manipulation of demographic rates of
threatened birds. More recently his research has included the
effects of veterinary pharmaceuticals on population processes
in birds and the effects of contamination from spent lead
ammunition on wildlife and human health.
Rhys sits on the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT)
Scientific Advisory Group. He has been awarded the Marsh
Award for Conservation Biology (1997), the Tucker Medal by
the British Trust for Ornithology for outstanding services to its
scientific work (2000) and the Godman-Salvin Medal by the
British Ornithologists Union as a signal honour for distinguished
ornithological work (2009). He is currently on the editorial boards
of five peer-reviewed journals and has more than 200 scientific
publications, of which 18 recent peer-reviewed publications
cover environmental contaminants, including lead.
Carl Gremse
Carl GremsegainedaMaster’sdegree inForestrySciences in2004
from the “Georg – August – University Goettingen”, Germany,
Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology. Since 2005 he
has been working as a researcher at the University of Applied
Sciences Eberswalde, Faculty of Wildlife Biology, Management
and Hunting Practice. Since 2006, he has been the leading
researcher in the German projects into the suitability of lead-
free projectiles for use in hunting practice. His main research
focus includes methods to assess suitability of a projectile
under avoidance of field trials and the possible deduction of
threshold values for performance standards to be introduced
into German hunting and animal safety legislation. Carl is
currently in the process of completing his PhD at the Faculty
of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy at Freie Universtät Berlin.
He has published part of his work in the scientific journal PLOS
ONE, contributed to the book “Trends in game meat hygiene”
(Wageningen Academic Publishers) and is working on further
publications together with scientists from the Federal German
Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the University Hospital at
RWTH Aachen, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
(SLU) and the Leibniz – Institute for Zoo- and Wildlife Research
(IZW), Berlin.
Dr. Niels Kanstrup
Dr. Niels Kanstrup is a Danish biologist and hunter and has
worked in wildlife management and hunting since 1985. Niels
was an employee for the Danish Hunters Association between
1985 and 2007 and has worked as a private consultant for the
Danish Academy of Hunting since 2007. He is heavily involved
in international nature and wildlife management issues through
active participation in a number of organisations including the
Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the
European Union (board member), the International Council
for Game and Wildlife Conservation (president of Migratory
Birds Commission), the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
Agreement (member of Technical Committee) and others.
Niels has expertise in sustainabilitymodels andco-management,
and, in particular, issues relating to non-toxic ammunitionwhere
he has been involved in studies, meetings and clinics globally,
concerning its use and efficacy.
Dr. Helle K. Knutsen
Dr. Helle Knutsen is a toxicologist and senior scientist at the
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). She is a member
of the panel on contaminants (CONTAM) of the European
Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and of the Norwegian Scientific
Committee for Food Safety (VKM). She graduated with a PhD
in molecular biology from the University of Oslo in 1995, and
started at the NIPH in 1999. She has authored several papers
on associations between dietary contaminant exposure and
biomarkers in humans, and in 2012 chaired a working group on
risk assessment of lead in cervid game meat for the VKM.
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