Jose has a general interest in wildlife monitoring techniques, demography and population dynamics, the study of species distributions, and the statistical methods that underpin these areas. But of course, always keeping in mind the ultimate step: how these feed into the decision-making process for biodiversity conservation and management so that the allocation of the often scarce conservation resources can be optimized. Pressing conservation problems have to be solved in an efficient way, making the best decisions in the light of available knowledge, and cleverly choosing what new information can be useful for achieving our targets!