Arie Trouwborst is an Associate Professor of Environmental Law, mainly interested in understanding and improving the contribution of (international and European) law to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of biodiversity. Trouwborst received an LLM (2001) and PhD (2006) from Utrecht University. He authored various books and numerous journal articles on a range of legal instruments, countries, species and topics. He frequently conducts advisory work for international entities (e.g., Bern Convention on European Wildlife, Convention on Migratory Species, IUCN), national governments, and NGOs. Much of Trouwborst's current research concerns megafauna (large mammals). Recent publications address, e.g., wolf management; leopard trophy export quotas; rhinoceros conservation; and conservation translocations. Trouwborst is an Extraordinary Associate Professor at North-West University, South Africa, and a certified wildlife tracker (level Track & Sign III).
Trouwborst's expertise covers a range of legal regimes, including:
He has considerable affinity with the practice of international wildlife law and policy, and has been involved in the development of various resolutions, management/action plans, and species listing proposals. Trouwborst has received several grants and prizes, including VENI and VIDI grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He also serves on the editorial boards of two journals on environmental and wildlife law, and is a member of various international expert groups, including the IUCN Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe.
Trouwborst has taught, designed and coordinated a variety of courses at Utrecht Law School, University College Utrecht, Tilburg Law School, and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna. These range from introductory courses on international and European law to specialized courses on international wildlife law, international and European environmental law, international law of the sea, the sources of international law, and (Dutch) administrative environmental law. Trouwborst has guest-lectured in many law and biology curricula elsewhere. He has supervised 8 PhD students (from South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, China, Belgium and the Netherlands).
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