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NPC UK

NPC was founded by a group of friends who shared an interest and passion for primates and conservation, and the UK remains the central office of the NPC family.

Find out about our work in UK here!

NPC United Kingdom Projects

Protect, educate, facilite, investigate, reforest and rescue

Our work in the UK concentrates on spreading awareness at events, campaigning and lobbying, and fundraising. Over the years our core team has changed with new trustees joining and old trustees stepping down, currently our board consists of:

Events

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We hold or attend events to raise conservation awareness and funding, and to educate the British public, and sometimes further afield in Europe

Laws

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We are active in campaigning for conservation and animal welfare in the UK. We regularly consult with other organizations and parliament on wildlife law, as well as promoting our causes publicly

Fundraising

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We raise funds in the UK to support our projects overseas. If you want to help, find out here!

Meet the team

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Brooke Aldrich
NPC UK

Brooke has studied, worked with, and worked on behalf of primates for many years. She has served as a trustee and director for NPC

since it received charitable status in 2007.  Brooke earned her MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University, for which she carried out her dissertation research in Northeastern Peru. Having since earned a second MSc in International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law at the University of Edinburgh, Brooke is particularly interested in the interplay between the use of primates as “entertainers”, the legal and illegal trades in primates and conservation efforts in the wild. She also works for the Asia for Animals Coalition, coordinating its Macaque Coalition, and the Animals Asia Foundation. Brooke is a member of the The IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section for Human-Primate Interactions.

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Katie Chabriere
NPC UK

Katie is a qualified linguist and translator, and has taught for some time in Thailand, where she volunteered at the Gibbon

Rehabilitation Project. After interning and working at Wild Futures’ Monkey Sanctuary on the primate welfare team and as Education Officer, Katie went on to help found Moroccan Primate Conservation UK. The highlight of her time with NPC thus far has been visiting Peru to help run an education programme in the Amazon basin. She is now based in France where she is a musician and runs English classes for children using art and the natural environment. She also holds a diploma in primate conservation, welfare and behaviour.
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Rachel Henson
NPC UK

Rachel has a BSc in Biology and has worked at a primate rescue centre in the UK, as well as with sanctuaries in Indonesia and Peru.

She spent a year at Danau Girang Field Centre in Malaysia where she guided visiting researchers on nocturnal primate walks and river surveys, started and edited the centre’s newsletter and carried out a research project with the Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project. She has an MA in Travel and Nature Writing and now balances freelance writing with her day job looking after ex-pet trade and laboratory primates. Rachel joined the NPC team in 2017.
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Kristina Stazaker 2024

Kristina Stazaker NPC UK

Kristina Stazaker has a MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, specialising in the Primate Photo Prop Trade. Her thesis

was published and featured in over 20 magazines and newspapers around the world. Previously a Primate Keeper and being involved with Primate sanctuaries, she now runs her own business consulting charities in their financial sustainability. Kristina joined NPC as their Treasurer in 2024.

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Joy Roberts-Chapple
NPC UK

Whilst studying for her BSc (Hons) in Animal Behaviour, Joy got involved the work of Wild Futures’, The Monkey Sanctuary, a primate

sanctuary in UK. It was here she found her passion for primates. After volunteering at The Monkey Sanctuary, Joy went on to study her MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University. She studied the personality of white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in a rescue centre in Thailand for her final thesis. Joy is the founder of the online education platform ‘Primate Wonder’ where she hopes to education and excite people about primates and their conservation and encourage people to take part in conservation where they can.
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Lauren Arnaud James

Lauren Arnaud James
NPC UK

Lauren joined NPC as a Trustee in 2024. With a masters in primatology from Oxford Brookes University and a previous masters in International

Studies, Culture, Conflicts and Peace, Lauren has had a particular interest in wildlife conservation, animal welfare, wildlife trade and human-animal interactions. After having worked in primate rescue centres in India and the UK, Lauren worked for some time for the AfA Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) with an important focus on primate content on social media, from pet keeping to extreme forms of abuse. Lauren now works for the Asia for Animals Coalition (AfA) and is delighted to be able to dedicate some of her spare time helping NPC in its mission to help primates in South America.

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Magdalena Svensson 2024

Magdalena Svensson
NPC UK

Magdalena has a background in wildlife conservation, and has for the last 17 years focused on primate conservation. She specialises in

ecology and conservation of nocturnal primates (Africa and Neotropics), primate vocalisation, primate tourism and wildlife trade. Magdalena has worked as lab technician and associate lecturer on the Primate Conservation MSc and PhD at Oxford Brookes University for the last 14 years and is since 2023 also a conservation officer at the Botanical Gardens Conservation International, working on global tree Red List assessments. She is an active research member of the Nocturnal Primate Research Group and the Oxford Wildlife Trade Research Group and a member of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group. Magdalena joined NPC as a trustee in 2024.

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Mika Peck
NPC UK

Mika is a conservation biologist based at the University of Sussex (UK). His research is focused on conservation and sustainable

livelihood projects in South America and Papua New Guinea. A major focus of Dr Mika’s work has been the application of the ‘parabiologist’ approach. This approach provides training at the grassroots level to identify development pathways that optimise local sustainable livelihoods and conservation goals

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Latest news

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Neotropical Primate Conservation (NPC) is a registered charity dedicated to the conservation of primates and their habitats in South and Central America. We aim to promote conservation and protect biodiversity in the Neotropics by working in several ways.

 

Neotropical Primate Conservation (UK)

Registered Charity N˚: 1131122 – Registered Company N˚: 06290336

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