Justin Brashares is an assistant professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. He received a Masters in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Conservation Biology from the University of British Columbia in 2001. He conducted postdoctoral research as an NSF International fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Justin has studied the population, community, and behavioral ecology of mammals and birds in East and West Africa and North America since 1990. In his research, he relies on long-term counts of wildlife populations as well as information gained in the study of individually identified animals to advance the science and practice of conservation biology. His research currently focuses on the causes and consequences of bushmeat hunting in Africa, conservation of small populations in western North America, and variation in ecology and behavior of African ungulates.