2020-2021. Community-Based Eco-Planning in High Dry Regions-Parts 1&2. Jon was invited by the editor of the Indian Journal of Landscape Architecture to contribute two articles on his work consulting with the United Nations Environment Programme in Afghanistan from...
2022 Jon’s zoo design and animal management papers are being widely read. On 16 December ResearchGate, a European networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, recorded 30,000 “reads” of Jon’s papers, including 9,716 “reads” of Design and Perception,...
July 2022 The Journal of Zoos and Botanical Gardens published the paper Jon coauthored with Ms. Sabrina Brando titled Confronting Back-of-House Traditions: Primates as a Case Study. This review commentary focuses on traditional management practices and facility design...
Jon was interviewed by BBC producer Daniel Nills Roberts for over an hour for an upcoming feature on the morality of zoos. It was a wide-ranging discussion, one of four interviews to be concentrated into a single ten-minute feature in the BBC IDEA series.
Animal Welfare through Competence (WtC) is a novel animal management and facility design concept Jon developed for zoos and wildlife sanctuaries. The idea is that with excellent health care and diet zoo animals may appear happy and healthy. But can they do anything...
2022 Jon prepared and delivered a two-morning training program for staff at the Zoological Society of London to assist them in their master planning of their two campuses in London and Whipsnade, UK.
