Cutting through a thick blanket of dense rainforest on the lookout for mountain gorillas and forest elephants along the edge of a Rwandan national park is not what most Irish PhD students would call an average day.   This was not lost on Shane McGuinness as he journeyed through Volcanoes National Park in the early 2010s as part of his Trinity doctorate charting the complex relationship between endangered megafauna and subsistence farmers on the margins of the protected nature zone. “I spent three days slogging across the edge of this national park between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

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