Christopher Brooke, now based in Hogsback in the Eastern Cape, is an ecologist and registered natural scientist with a passion to better the management and ecology of southern African ecosystems through sound scientific-based decision making. Christopher Graduated his MSc degree from Nelson Mandela University (cum laude) in April 2018 with a thesis investigating how fire and poaching influenced habitat selection of large grazing herbivores in Mkambati Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape. Thereafter, Christopher continued and completed his PhD at Nelson Mandela University and graduated in April 2021 with a thesis modelling historic populations and drivers of large herbivores on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (a now submerged landscape off the south coast of South Africa). Following from that, he pursued a post-doc to answer many of the additional questions that were developed during his PhD. Additionally, Christopher has also been involved in numerous other ecological based projects around South Africa ranging from herpetafauna surveys and compiling museum specimens to measuring the effects of elephants on woody vegetation in savanna ecosystems.

Memberships and affiliations

• (SAWMA) South African Wildlife Management Association (ordinary member)
• (SACNASP) South African Council for Natural Scientific Professionals (Pr.Sci.Nat 148392)