BMAC Annual Reports (click on report to read)
Publications by BMAC team members (in bold) – almost all are open access, just follow the link.
Eppley, T.M, Reuter KE, Sefczek TM, Tinsman J, Santini L, Hoeks S, Andriantsaralazas S, Shanee S, Di Fiore A, Setchell JM, Strier K,… Waters S et al. 2024. Tropical field stations yield high conservation on investment. Conservation Letters 17(2).
Alexander, S.A., Waters, S., Clarke, T.A., Radford, L.M. et al. 2023. The past, present, and future of the primate pet trade. In: McKinney T., Waters, S, Rodrigues, M. (eds), Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes, pp. 247-266. Springer.
Maréchal, L. M. & Waters, S. 2023. Case study: Barbary macaques and tourism in Morocco. In: Primate Case Studies, S. Waters (ed.) IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate interactions.
Maréchal, LM, Waters, S., Kitegile, A., Niu, K., Ang, A. & Wallis, J. 2023. Recommendations for Responsible African and Eurasian Monkey Watching. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate interactions. (Available in Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish).
McKinney, T., Waters, S., Rodrigues, M. 2023. Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Exploring Primate Behavioural Flexibility Across Human Contexts, Springer.
Waters, S. & El Harrad, A. 2023. Wildfire kills endangered Barbary macaques in Bouhachem mixed oak forest, Morocco. Conservation news, Oryx.
Waters, S., Hansen, M. F., et al. 2023. Responsible Primate-Watching for Tourists. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate interactions.
Waters, S., Watson, T., Farris, Z.J., Bornbusch, S., Valenta, K., Clarke, T., Chetry, D., Randriana, Z., Owen, J.R., El Harrad, A., et al. 2023. Dogs, primates and people: A review. In McKinney, T., Waters, S. & Rodrigues, M. (eds), Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes, pp. 61-81. Springer.
Waters, S., Hansen, M. F., et al. 2023. Responsible Primate-Watching for Tourists. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate interactions.
Waters S, El Harrad A, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2021. Decolonizing primate conservation practice: A case study from north Morocco. International Journal of Primatology.
Waters S, Watson T, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2018. Communicating for conservation: Circumventing conflict with communities over domestic dog ownership in north Morocco. European Journal of Wildlife Research 64:69
Waters, S, El Harrad A, Chetuan M, Bell S & Setchell JM. 2017. Dogs disturbing wildlife: Domestic dogs harass and kill Barbary macaques in Bouhachem forest, north Morocco. African Primates 12:55-58
Setchell JM, Fairet EM, Shutt K, Waters S & Bell S. 2016. Biosocial conservation: Integrating ecological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions. International Journal of Primatology 38:401-426.
Waters S, El Harrad A, Chetuan M & Amaouch Z. 2015. Barbary macaque group size and composition in Bouhachem forest, north Morocco. African Primates 10:53-56.
Primate Trade Issues
Norconk MA, Atsalis S, Tully G, Santillan AM, Waters S, Knott CD, Ross SR, Shanee S & Stiles D. 2019. Reducing the primate pet trade: Actions for primatologists. American Journal of Primatology 82:
Bergin D, Atoussi S & Waters S. 2018. Online trade in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in Algeria and Morocco. Biodiversity and Conservation 27:531-534
Waters S & El Harrad A. 2013. A note on the effective use of social media to raise awareness against the illegal trade in Barbary macaques African Primates 8:67- 68
Conservation Translocations & Rewilding
Consortes-McCrea A, Kolipar S, Owen JR, Ruiz-Miranda CR. Waters S. 2022. Guidelines to facilitate human-wildlife interactions in conservation translocations. Frontiers in Conservation Science. Research Topic: Human dimensions of animal translocations.
Miscellaneous Publications
Hansen MF, Kalen AK, Riley EP, Waters S. 2022. Evaluating the need to habituate: Modern approaches to field primatology during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Primate Conservation 36.
Waters S, Setchell JM, Marechal L, Oram F, Wallis J, & Cheyne S. 2021. IUCN Primate Specialist Group Section for Human-Primate Interactions Best Practice Guidelines for Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates.
Waters, S. & El Harrad, A. 2018. New location for the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in the catchments of the western Rif Mountains, Morocco. IUCN Otter Specialist Group Bulletin 35:230-234.
Waters S, El Harrad A, Amaouch Z, Taiqui L & Senn HS. 2015 . DNA analysis confirms African wolf (Canis lupaster) in Morocco. Canid Biology and Conservation 18 (5):15-17.
Other Articles
An interview about our ethnographic approach to conservation in Mongabay.
Featuring our work with the illegal trade in Barbary macaques in Middle East Eye.
About our conservation work in Morocco in Spanish.
Barbary Macaque Awareness and Conservation 