About
Juan Li 李娟
Assistant Professor
Centre of Excellence for One Health and Environmental Sustainability
Academy of Life and Natural Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
A little about me
My research began with snow leopards and conservation on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau.
I study how the expanding human footprint, from farmland and pastures to cities, reshapes where wildlife can live, and how to reconstruct those changes from global open data, Earth observation and carefully validated AI.
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Academic path
B.S. in Biological Sciences and Ph.D. in Zoology from Peking University; postdoctoral research at Peking University, UC Berkeley, and Westlake University.
Roles
- Youth Editorial Board, Biodiversity Science
- Guest Editor, snow leopard special issue, Integrative Conservation
Fellowships
- 2015 Scholar Fellowship, Panthera
- 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences
- 2012 Scholar Fellowship, Snow Leopard Trust
Yixi talk · 25 February 2023, Hangzhou
The world that the snow leopard showed me
“I turned around, and a snow leopard had landed two metres to my left — then it turned and ran.”
我刚回头一看，一只雪豹就跳在我左边两米的地方，转身就跑。
“Standing on the overpass, I thought: living comfortably in the city, it is easy for us to talk about wildlife conservation. But the herders who live alongside wildlife lose a few percent of their property to wild animals every year, and still protect them of their own accord.”
我站在天桥上想，我们住在城市里，过着舒适的生活，去谈野生动物保护是很轻松的一件事情。但是那些跟野生动物生活在一起的牧民们，他们每年被野生动物吃掉百分之几的财产，还自发地保护，真的让人难以想象，特别感动。
Quoted from the published talk; English translation of the Chinese original.
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