I am a conservation scientist (and also practitioner) working to design and implement incentive-based conservation programs, as well as evaluating the impact of conservation through counterfactual approaches. In my current role as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Natural Sciences, I am also based partially in the Comoros, working together with Comorian NGO Dahari to design a conservation agreements program to conserve and restore the remaining native forest on Anjouan Island.

e.pynegar [at] bangor.ac.uk

I occasionally co-supervise postgraduate students. If you're an MSc student interested in working on conservation agreements, payments for ecosystem services, impact evaluation, or dynamics of land use change in Bolivia, please write to me at e.pynegar [at] bangor.ac.uk.

2021

• PublishedWhat role should randomized control trials play in providing the evidence base for conservation?
  Pynegar, E. L., Gibbons, J. M., Asquith, N. M. & Jones, J. P. G., Mar 2021, In: Oryx. 55, 2, p. 235-244
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedMechanisms and impacts of an incentive-based conservation program with evidence from a randomized control trial
  Wiik, E., Jones, J. P. G., Pynegar, E., Bottazzi, P., Asquith, N., Gibbons, J. & Kontoleon, A., Oct 2020, In: Conservation Biology. 34, 5, p. 1076-1088 13 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• PublishedAn experimental evaluation of the impact of a Payment for Environmental Services programme on deforestation
  Wiik, E., d'Annunzio, R., Pynegar, E., Crespo, D., Asquith, N. & Jones, J. P. G., 15 Apr 2019, In: Conservation Science and Practice. 1, 2, e8.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

• PublishedThe effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality: lessons for experiments at the landscape scale
  Pynegar, E. L., Jones, J. P. G., Gibbons, J. M. & Asquith, N. M., 23 Oct 2018, In: PeerJ. 6, e5753.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Introducing research-informed conservation agreements for forest restoration in Anjouan, Comoros

01/04/2022 – 30/04/2024 (Active)