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Pooley, Simon (2024) Notes towards a management history of Ndumo Game Reserve. African Journal of Wildlife Research , ISSN 2410-7220. (In Press)

Pooley, Simon (2024) Research and management of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) in Ndumo Game Reserve. African Journal of Wildlife Research , ISSN 2410-7220. (In Press)

Pooley, Simon (2024) Historical context of research in Maputaland, South Africa, and research in Ndumo Game Reserve to c.1988. African Journal of Wildlife Research , ISSN 2410-7220. (In Press)

Pooley, Simon (2023) Introduction to special issue: Coexistence with Reptiles. Current Conservation 17 (4), pp. 3-7. ISSN 0974-0953.

Taylor, J. and Nunez, P. and Gaspero, P. and Pooley, Simon and Fernandez-Ahrez, V. (2023) Comparing narratives on carnivore management in a dryland ecosystem: a case study of state-backed lethal control. The Rangeland Journal , ISSN 1036-9872.

Ashepet, M.-G. and Dahdouh-Guebas, F. and Redpath, S. and Pooley, Simon and Huge, J. (2023) The state and perceptions of human-crocodile interactions around Murchison falls conservation area, Uganda. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 29 (2), pp. 194-209. ISSN 1087-1209.

Pooley, Simon (2022) The challenge of compassion in predator conservation. Frontiers in Psychology 13 , ISSN 1664-1078.

Pooley, Simon (2022) Historical perspective on fire research in East and Southern African grasslands and savannas. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 39 (1), pp. 1-15. ISSN 1022-0119.

Pooley, Simon (2021) Fire in African landscapes. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History ,

Pooley, Simon (2021) Coexistence for whom? Frontiers in Conservation Science 2 , ISSN 2673-611X.

Pooley, Simon and Bhatia, S. and Vasava, A. (2021) Rethinking the study of human-wildlife coexistence. Conservation Biology 35 (3), pp. 784-793. ISSN 0888-8892.

Pooley, Simon (2021) Rethinking coexistence with wildlife in the wetlands of gujarat. Current Conservation 15 (1), pp. 23-28. ISSN 0974-0953.

Pooley, Simon and Siroski, P. and Fernandez, L. and Sideleau, B. and Ponce-Campos, P. (2021) Human-Crocodilian interactions in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Conservation Science and Practice 3 (5), e351. ISSN 2578-4854.

Powell, G. and Versluys, T.M.M. and Williams, J. and Tiedt, S. and Pooley, Simon (2020) Using environmental niche modelling to investigate the importance of ambient temperature in human-crocodilian attack occurrence for two species of crocodilian. Oryx 54 (5), pp. 639-647. ISSN 0030-6053.

Von Essen, M. and Leung, W. and Bosch, J. and Pooley, Simon and Ayres, C. and Price, S. (2020) High pathogen prevalence in an amphibian and reptile assemblage at a site with risk factors for dispersal in Galicia, Spain. PLoS One , ISSN 1932-6203.

Booth, H. and Pooley, Simon and Clements, T. and Putra, M.I.H. and Lestari, P. and Lewis, S. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2020) Assessing the impact of regulations on the use and trade of wildlife: an operational framework, with a case study on manta rays. Global Ecology and Conservation 22 , e00953. ISSN 2351-9894.

Pooley, Simon and Botha, H. and Combrink, X. and Powell, G. (2019) Synthesizing Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus attack data and historical context to inform mitigation efforts in South Africa and eSwatini (Swaziland). Oryx 54 (5), pp. 629-638. ISSN 0030-6053.

Pooley, Simon (2019) Bioinvasions and the idea of the Mediterranean. Geography 104 (2), pp. 106-108. ISSN 0016-7487.

Pooley, Simon (2018) Descent with modification: critical use of historical evidence for conservation. Conservation Letters 11 (4), e12437. ISSN 1755-263X.

Pooley, Simon (2018) Fire, smoke, and expertise in South Africa’s grasslands. Environmental History 23 (1), pp. 28-55. ISSN 1084-5453.

Redpath, S.M. and Linnell, J.D.C. and Festa-Bianchet, M. and Boitani, L. and Bunnefeld, N. and Dickman, A. and Gutierrez, R.J. and Irvine, R.J. and Johansson, M. and Majic, A. and McMahon, B. and Pooley, Simon and Sandstrom, C. and Sjolander-Lindqvist, A. and Skogen, K. and Swenson, J.E. and Trouwborst, A. and Young, J. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2017) Don’t forget to look down - collaborative approaches to predator conservation. Biological Reviews 92 (4), 2157- 2163. ISSN 1464-7931.

Pooley, Simon and Barua, M. and Beinart, W. and Dickman, A. and Holmes, G. and Lorimer, J. and Loveridge, A. and Macdonald, D. and Marvin, G. and Redpath, S. and Sillero, C. and Zimmermann, A. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2017) An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations. Conservation Biology 31 (3), pp. 513-523. ISSN 0888-8892.

Pooley, Simon (2016) A cultural herpetology of Nile crocodiles in Africa. Conservation and Society 14 (4), pp. 391-405. ISSN 0972-4923.

Pooley, Simon (2016) The entangled relations of humans and Nile crocodiles in Africa, c.1840-1992. Environment & History 33 (2), pp. 421-454. ISSN 0967-3407.

Pooley, Simon (2016) Endangered. Environmental Humanities 7 (1), pp. 259-263. ISSN 2201-1919.

Pooley, Simon (2015) Using predator attack data to save lives, human and crocodilian. Oryx 49 (04), pp. 581-583. ISSN 0030-6053.

Pooley, Simon and Fa, J.E. and Nasi, R. (2015) No conservation silver lining to Ebola. Conservation Biology 29 (3), pp. 965-967. ISSN 0888-8892.

Pooley, Simon and Mendelsohn, J.A. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2014) Hunting down the chimera of multiple disciplinarity in conservation science. Conservation Biology 28 (1), pp. 22-32. ISSN 0888-8892.

Pooley, Simon (2013) Historians are from Venus, Ecologists are from Mars. Conservation Biology 27 (6), pp. 1481-1483. ISSN 0888-8892.

Pooley, Simon (2012) Recovering the lost history of fire in South Africa's Fynbos. Environmental History 17 (1), pp. 55-83. ISSN 1084-5453.

Pooley, Simon (2010) Pressed flowers: notions of indigenous and alien vegetation in South Africa's Western Cape, c. 1902-1945. Journal of Southern African Studies 36 (3), pp. 599-618. ISSN 0305-7070.

Pooley, Simon (2009) Jan van Riebeeck as pioneering explorer and conservator of natural resources at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-62). Environment & History 15 (1), pp. 3-33. ISSN 0967-3407.

Book Review

Pooley, Simon (2018) National Park Science: a Century of Research in South Africa. [Book Review]

Editorial/Introduction

Pooley, Simon (2024) Introduction to special issue on coexistence with Reptiles. [Editorial/Introduction]

Pooley, Simon and Linnell, J. and Munster, U. and van Dooren, T. and Zimmermann, A. (2022) Understanding coexistence with wildlife. [Editorial/Introduction]

Letter

Pooley, Simon and Redpath, S. (2018) Speaking up for collaboration in conservation. [Letter]

Pooley, Simon and Fa, J.E. and Nasi, R. (2015) Response to Osofsky's “Misrepresentation by Citation". [Letter]

Pooley, Simon and Fa, J. and Nasi, R. (2014) Ebola and bushmeat. [Letter]

Book Section

Blackmore, A. and McCormack, P. and Pooley, Simon (2024) A brief overview of strategies used to prevent or reduce human-wildlife conflict - a foundation for adaption to climate change. In: McCormack, P. and Caddell, R. (eds.) Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law. Research Handbooks in Climate Law. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, pp. 289-314. ISBN 978180037028.

Pooley, Simon and Queiroz, A.I. (2018) Introduction: historical perspectives on bioinvasions in the Mediterranean region. In: Queiroz, A.I. and Pooley, Simon (eds.) Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean. Environmental History 8. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9783319749860.

Pooley, Simon (2018) The long and entangled history of humans and invasive introduced plants on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. In: Quieroz, A.I. and Pooley, Simon (eds.) Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean. Environmental History 8. Springer, pp. 219-251. ISBN 9783319749853.

Pooley, Simon (2014) Invasion of the crocodiles. In: Frawley, J. and McCalman, I. (eds.) Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities. Routledge Environmental Humanities. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415716567.

Pooley, Simon (2013) No tears for the crocodiles: representations of Nile Crocodiles and the extermination furore in Zululand, South Africa, from 1956–8. In: Beinart, W. and Middleton, K. and Pooley, Simon (eds.) Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination. White Horse Press. ISBN 9781874267751.

Pooley, Simon (2011) Fire and loathing in the Fynbos: notions of indigenous and alien vegetation in South Africa's Western Cape, c.1902-1945. In: Rotherham, I.D. and Lambert, R.A. (eds.) Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals: Human Perceptions, Attitudes and Approaches to Management. Earthscan. ISBN 9781849710718.

Pooley, Simon (2011) Histories of fire on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. In: Massard-Guilbaud, G. and Mosley, S. (eds.) Common Ground: Integrating the Social and Environmental in History. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 293-315. ISBN 9781443825498.

Book

Quieroz, A.I. and Pooley, Simon, eds. (2018) Histories of bioinvasions in the Mediterranean. Environmental History 8. Springer. ISBN 9783319749853.

Pooley, Simon (2014) Burning Table Mountain: an environmental history of fire on the Cape Peninsula. Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137415431.

Beinart, W. and Middleton, K. and Pooley, Simon, eds. (2013) Wild things: nature and the social imagination. White Horse Press. ISBN 9781874267751.

Video

Pooley, Simon (2017) Birkbeck Explains: What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? [Video]

Other

Pooley, Simon (2018) Human-crocodile conflict. Crocodile Specialist group.

Pooley, Simon (2017) How to avoid being eaten by a crocodile. Times Live.

Pooley, Simon (2016) It is surprisingly rare for an Alligator to kill a person. BBC Earth.

Pooley, Simon (2016) Don’t get eaten by a crocodile. IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group.

Pooley, Simon (2015) Importance of fire to fynbos. Cape Times.

Pooley, Simon (2015) Burning Table Mountain: discussing the history of fire at the Cape, and contemporary fires. Primedia Broadcasting.

Pooley, Simon (2015) Don’t get eaten by a crocodile: in South Africa or Swaziland. Simon Pooley, London, UK.