Dr Martha Ledger is a Senior Ecologist at KFBG, where she leads the Integrated Species Conservation group. She is a conservation ecologist whose research focuses on understanding how environmental change shapes ecosystem function and biodiversity. Her work integrates field ecology, remote sensing and environmental monitoring to inform evidence-based conservation and restoration.

 

Before joining KFBG in 2026, Martha worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong, where she used remote sensing methods and ecological modelling to investigate species redistributions with environmental change.  She has experience working in extreme field environments, having worked on tropical peatland systems in Southeast Asia, combining ground-based measurements with remote sensing to understand peat condition and carbon dynamics, and reconstructing the history of penguin pathogens in Antarctica with the collection of lake sediment cores.

 

At KFBG, Martha's role centres on applied ecological research to support threatened native species recovery and integrated species conservation. Her goal is to build research programmes that are scientifically rigorous, collaborative and directly aligned with conservation action in Hong Kong and the wider region.