The Animal Welfarist

Wild Animal Welfare. Community-Led Conservation. Care-full Wildlife Tourism.

My Academic C.V.

Recent Publications:

Speiran, S. I. M. (2025). A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries. Human-Animal Interactions, 13(1).

Speiran, S. I. M. (2025). The ‘Sanctuary Gap’: Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism. Animals, 15(4), 496. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15040496

Recent Press:

Anthes, E. (2024, Dec. 25). The Animal Celebrities Who Surprised, Soothed and Screamed at Us in 2024. The New York Times.

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Costa Rican Monkey Interest Group

I founded the Costa Rican Monkey Interest Group to connect wildlife researchers, caregivers, and professionals around the country and internationally through collaborative research, conservation initiatives, and activism to improve monkey lives.

 

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Dr. Siobhan Speiran

 

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