Dr. Leo Douglas is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University where his teaching and research interests include conservation biology, sustainable land management and exploring the relationships between humans and our natural environment including conflicts with wildlife. Much of his research has been conducted in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean with a particular focus on birds.
Dr. Douglas grew up in the Upper Rio Minho watershed area, Clarendon, where he developed an interest in nature. After graduating from Calabar High School he earned a B.Sc. and then M.Phil. in Zoology from The University of the West Indies. His M.Phil. thesis explored the effect of human habitat disturbance of Jamaica’s south-coast dry forests on birds. After working with BirdLife Jamaica and the five-year USAID-Jamaica Ridge to Reef Watersheds Project he was awarded a Fulbright OAS scholarship which he used to pursue an MSc in Ecology, Evolution and Environment at Columbia University, USA, He continued his studies at Columbia and was awarded his Ph.D. for his thesis on Human-Wildlife Relationships, in 2012.
Dr. Douglas’ most recent project is, The Reimaging Nanny: Her Sword a Seed Project which used art (through a painting competition completed in 2022) and film – through a documentary first screened in 2023. The project explores the legacy of Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica’s only female National Hero) as an early Afro-Jamaican ecologist, a protector of the forests and watersheds, as the quintessential conservationist and environmental justice leader, and scholar of the sacred things and places of the mountains of eastern Jamaica.
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