Career
For 18 years,Zimmermann worked at Chester Zoo,where she directed research and field conservation projects at the zoo. Eventually,she became the Head of Conservation Science at Chester Zoo. [2] [3] [7] [8] At Chester Zoo,Zimmermann led their human-wildlife conflict mitigation projects,for which she was awarded grants from the UK Government's Darwin Initiative five times beginning in 2007. [9] [10] These included projects in Bolivia,Nepal,India,and Indonesia. [7] [11] [8]
Zimmermann chairs the IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force,which she had founded in 2016. [3] [12] [13] As part of the task force,she oversees the development of the IUCN SSC Guidelines on Human-Wildlife Conflict and the International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict &Coexistence. [12] Zimmermann also became a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental,Economic,and Social Policy,along with several Species Survival Commission Specialist Groups. [2] [3]
Later,Zimmermann became a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University's WildCRU. [2] [14] [15] While holding positions at both organizations,Zimmermann helped facilitate the partnership between Oxford University and Chester Zoo in 2018 for a portfolio of conservation projects,including one on Andean bears,which was funded through the Darwin Initiative and is still ongoing. [11] [16]
Zimmermann is a Senior Advisor for the World Bank's Global Wildlife Program. [2] [3] She is also Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Conservation Science,an academic journal. [17] She has been interviewed several times by BBC News as a specialist on conservation and human-wildlife conflicts. [4] [18] [19] [20]
In 2018,Zimmermann was also interviewed for an Al-Jazeera Earthrise documentary about human-wildlife conflict in Australia and Bangladesh. [21]
