2022
Welcome Welcome to the 2022 Tusk Conservation Symposium. The last two years have been extremely tough for everyone the world over. The conservation sector, in particular, has had to endure huge losses in tourism, dramatic cut backs in operating budgets, and sadly redundancies too. As we see the early signs of the world emerging from the pandemic, we are thrilled that so many leading conservationists and Tusk partners have been able to join us for this symposium in the Maasai Mara - surely a positive sign in itself! The theme for this important gathering is appropriately ‘Building Resilience in African Conservation’ and it promises once again to be a stimulating and valuable few days. We are hugely indebted to The Nick Maughan Foundation, our lead sponsor, for generously making this entire event possible. We would also like to acknowledge the kind contribution from Land Rover, who have provided all the ground transport. The impetus for our inaugural Symposium held in Cape Town in 2017 came from Tusk’s Royal Patron, Prince William. It had become clear that each year the finalists attending the Tusk Conservation Awards were enjoying the opportunity to meet some other amazing men and women working across Africa, but more importantly they were benefitting hugely from sharing both their challenges and solutions with each other. In 2019, we held a larger gathering
at the Mount Kenya Safari Club and today we are excited and proud to be hosting our third such symposium with the backdrop of this iconic Kenyan game reserve. This symposium seeks to leverage the inherent value from all our delegates sharing their extraordinary knowledge, collective experience and expertise. Many of you work in remote and challenging environments where the opportunity to meet and learn about innovative techniques and alternative ideas being applied elsewhere may be rare. That said, we have all recently become adept at meeting on Zoom, but I suspect we also recognise that is no substitute to meeting and spending time with each in person. We all care deeply for Africa, its wildlife, landscapes and people. We owe it to ourselves and our supporters to share our collective knowledge and work together to protect the continent’s extraordinary biodiversity. Therefore above all we ask that you approach this week with an open mind and a true willingness to seek any opportunity to collaborate. There is a huge reservoir of knowledge here – let’s use it to help each other! On behalf of all the Tusk team and our sponsors, we hope that you find this week valuable, informative and, of course, enjoyable!
Charlie Mayhew MBE Chief Executive, Tusk Trust
tusksymposium.com
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AT-A-GLANCE AGENDA
At-A-Glance Agenda Building Resilience in African Conservation The focus for our third symposium is how we can build resilience in conservation. We will look at how the pandemic has affected all our work, what opportunities it has presented through disrupting the status quo, and how we can rebuild better and ‘future-proof’ our work. A series of workshops, training sessions and spotlight presentations will engender direct and peer-to-peer learning, with each workshop linked to the others. These include:
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Strategic Collaboration
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Leading Resilient Organisations
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Communicating for Impact
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Diversifying and Strengthening Funding
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Creating Opportunity from Crisis
A day will be spent in the field with some influential African conservation leaders, and most importantly there will be lots of opportunity to network with our other project partners and have fun!
A detailed timetable can be found on page 6. In summary the key activities on each day are follows:
Sunday 27th February
Tuesday 1st March
10:30
Arrive at the Mara Sarova
07:00
Departure for field day
11:00
Welcome
15:00
PCR Covid testing
12:00
Check-in to rooms
15:30
Game competition
14:00
Team Building
17:00
African Leadership Panel
14:45
Workshop 1: Strategic Collaboration
18:00
Cocktails by the pool
15:30
Success Spotlights
16:00
Tea with the Trustees
16:30
Game drive followed by sundowners
Wednesday 2nd March 08:30
Workshop 4: Communicating for Impact
12:00
Success Spotlights
Monday 28th February
13:45
Diversifying and Strengthening Funding
08:30
Workshop 2: Human Wildlife Conflict Mitigation
16:15
Success Spotlights
09:45
Success Spotlights
16:45
Conclusion
11:00
Workshop 3 – Leading Resilient Organisations
19:00
Bush Dinner
13:45
Workshop 3 continued
Thursday 3rd March
16:00
Success Spotlights
07:30
Departure for the airstrip
18:00
Boma Dinner
08:00
Air Kenya flight departs for Nairobi
The Tusk Team (see page 20) is here to help you, so please do speak to us if you need help with anything. Do take time to read the Covid protocols (page 25), which detail plans if someone falls ill during the symposium. We sincerely hope that you gain a lot from our time together and that as a team we can build resilience in our work across the continent.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Acknowledgements Tusk is very grateful to the following people and organisations who have made the symposium possible. Nick Maughan, Land Rover, Inchcape, The Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association, The Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, The Maa Trust, The Mara Naboisho Conservancy, Daniel Sopia, Daniel Muli, Dickson Kaelo, Crystal Morgensen, Maliasili, Cara Scott, Askhay Vishwanath, Wanjiku Kinuthia, Jessie Davie, Mike Pflanz, The Mara Sarova, Selina Dima, Nicholas Maina, Beatrice Karanja, Barbara Barungi and Hakeem Belo-Osagie.
Tusk is very grateful to the Sarova Group and the Sarova Mara Game Camp for their support of the Tusk Conservation Symposium. The Sarova Mara is located in the heart of the Masai Mara Game Reserve in South West Kenya. It is 260 km from Nairobi which is an hour flight from Nairobi and 20-minute drive from the airstrip or a 5-hour drive from Nairobi. The Camp is set on an elevation surrounded by two streams. Below is a map of The Sarova Mara:
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FACILITATORS
Facilitators Wanjiku is a strong believer that effective communications are critical to helping conservation organizations achieve their goals, amplify their voices, and shape global conversations. Her primary role is to provide direct communications support to Maliasili’s portfolio partners and leadership programmes.
Wanjiku Kinuthia Communications Manager Maliasili
Wanjiku has close to a decade’s experience in designing high-level communications strategies, with a skill set that includes donor communications, digital strategy, organizational branding, and media engagement. Before joining Maliasili she worked with the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy as well as Space for Giants.
As the Leadership Coordinator for Maliasili, Cara plays an instrumental role in the design and implementation of Maliasili’s leadership programs, and leads the coordination of Maliasili’s integrated OD and leadership efforts.
Cara Scott Coordinator, Leadership Programs Maliasili
Originally from London, Cara has 20 years of experience working with non-profits. She has lived in Tanzania for over ten years and, prior to joining Maliasili, served consecutively as Program Manager for two of Maliasili’s Tanzanian partners, the Pastoral Women’s Council and the Ujamaa Community Resource Team. Previously, she has worked as a Refugee Services Coordinator for the British Red Cross in London. She also has experience working in rural education in South Africa and in the health field in the UK supporting parents and health professionals. W: www.maliasili.org
Mike Pflanz Media Advisor and Founder Plantwood Communications
Mike Pflanz is media advisor to a number of conservation and environment organisations working in Africa, including The Nature Conservancy and Space for Giants. He helps them work out what they want to say and to whom, and advises which media outlets will most effectively reach those audiences, before designing the strategies that will engage those reporters. His focus is on guiding organisations to work more closely with African national media, as well as international journalists. He formed his company Plantwood Communications in 2016, after more than a decade as Africa Correspondent for Britain’s Daily Telegraph. W: www.plantwoodcommunications.com
Akshay Vishwanath Portfolio Manager, East Africa Maliasili
Akshay has spent most of his career working on the governance aspects of natural resource management in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has wide-ranging experience in the fields of water resource management, landscape and wildlife conservation, community participatory approaches, advocacy and lobbying, and strategic planning. He is passionate about mobilizing people, communities, and organizations to tackle our most pressing environmental challenges. It is to this end that he seeks to combine his experience, background in environmental studies, and his business education to work with Maliasili’s partners to help them on their journey to becoming strong institutions that deliver great impact. W: www.maliasili.org
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AGENDA
Agenda 8 am
Sunday 27 February
Monday 28 February
Tuesday 1 March
Wednesday 2 March
Thursday 3 March
Early am Game Drive
Depart Sarova at 7am
Early am Game Drive
Guests depart
:15 :30 :45
9 am
:15 :30
Workshop 2
Workshop 4
Human Wildllife Conflict with EPI
Depart Nairobi
Communicating for Impact
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10 am
:30
Break
:45
11 am
:15 :30
Welcome
:15 :30
Leading Resilient Organisations
:15
Lunch
Lunch
Team Building
Workshop 3 (cont)
Workshop 4 (cont) Communicating for Impact Work Session
The day will end at The Maa Trust headquarters before returning to the lodge for a late lunch
Check in to rooms
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1 pm
Break
Followed by a visit to the Naibosho and Pardamat Conservancies.
Workshop 3
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12 am
Bush breakfast and discussion on community conservation model in the Maasai Mara.
Success Spotlights
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Success Spotlights
Lunch
:30 :45
2 pm
:15 :30
Workshop 1
Leading Resilient Organisations
:45
Success Spotlights
Break
:15
Tea with the Trustees
Success Spotlights
Game Drive
Game Drive
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3 pm
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4 pm
:30 :45
Lunch at Sarova
Conclusion
African Leadership Panel
Cocktails at the pool
Sundowners
7 pm
Bush Dinner
Boma Dinner
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8 pm
:30
Break Success Spotlights
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9 pm
Games Competition
Break
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Covid Testing
Strategic Collaboration
5 pm 6 pm
Workshop 5
Diversifying and Strengthening Funding
Dinner at Sarova
Dinner at Sarova
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10 pm
Success Spotlights Timetable
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Sunday 27th February (3.30pm)
Monday 28th February (10.00am)
Monday 28th February (4.00pm)
Wednesday 2nd March (12.00pm)
Wednesday 2nd March (4.15pm)
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PDC
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Grevy’s Zebra Trust
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Blue Ventures
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Conservation Lower Zambezi
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Mali Elephant Project
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Pangolin Project
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
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Mountain Bongo Project
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Bhejane Trust
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RWCA
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Tsavo Trust
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Programa Tato
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PACE
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VulPro
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Zambian Carnivore Project
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Milgis Trust
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Wildlife Action Group
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Chimpanzee Conservation Centre
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Save Rhino Trust
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Mount Kenya Trust
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Africa Foundation
5
Big Life Foundation
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Lilongwe Wildlife Trust
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Lamu Marine Conservation Project
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Delegates
Matt Becker CEO PROJECT
Zambian Carnivore Project Zambia
Matt is the CEO of the Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP), an organization dedicated to conserving large carnivores and ecosystems. ZCP uses a four-pronged approach to achieve our mission: 1) Conservation Science: Long-term research and monitoring aimed at identifying and evaluating the limiting factors and threats to the persistence of Zambia’s large carnivores and ecosystems; 2) Conservation Action: Addressing immediate threats, as identified by science; 3) Conservation Leadership: Helping Zambia become a model for locally-led conservation through well-trained, passionate, and committed conservation leaders; and 4) Coexistence: reducing the costs, and increasing the benefits, understanding and appreciation of conservation. ZCP currently works across 34,500 km2 of 7 national parks, 7 Game Management Areas and 5 ecosystems, and runs some of the region’s longest-running field-based projects in the Luangwa Valley, the Greater Liuwa Ecosystem, and the Greater Kafue Ecosystem.
Damian Bell Executive Director PROJECT
Honeyguide Foundation Tanzania
Damian is the Executive Director and founder of Honeyguide Foundation. Damian formed a safari company in Tanzania over 20 years ago called Sokwe, which has grown into a leading ecotourism company, now known as Asilia Africa. With other leading actors, Damian helped pioneer partnership tourism agreements with local communities to enable these communities to benefit from tourism, value wildlife, and look after these resources. With this experience, Damian realized that the future of these ecosystems requires an approach that examines the interdependence between people and wildlife, recognizing that communities need to play a critical role in the future of wildlife in Tanzania. Damian was also a founding member of the Tanzania Natural Resources Forum, which is a well-recognized and respected collective civil society-based initiative to improve natural resource management and conservation in Tanzania. W: www.honeyguide.org
W: www.zambiacarnivores.org
Peter Blinston Executive Director
Much maligned and persecuted to the edge of extinction through prejudice and ignorance, the enigmatic painted dog captivated me as an eight-year-old boy growing up in northern England. I believe that changing an individual’s life, one day at a time, is the key, be it an individual painted dog’s or a person’s life can and does make a difference on the front line of conservation. W: www.painteddog.org
Lynn Clifford Director
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Painted Dog Conservation
Wildlife Action Group
Zimbabwe
Malawi
Originally from Ireland, Lynn has been extremely fortunate to have 16 years’ experience working in conservation projects in Western and Eastern Africa. Currently, she is the Director of Wildlife Action Group (WAG), a Malawian NGO, non for profit. WAG supports government by managing two important forest reserves rich in biodiversity including African elephant, buffalo and pangolin. It is now four years since they have recorded a single loss of elephant due to poaching. Their work includes law enforcement, community outreach projects to promote local livelihoods and reduce resilience on natural resources, mitigation of Human elephant conflict, education and outreach, development and restoration of the forests, research and rescue and release. W: www.wildlifeactiongroupmalawi.org
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Andrew was raised in Zimbabwe and South Africa and from a young age developed a passion for the outdoors and conservation. After reading Politics, Philosophy and Economics as well as MPhil Political Management at university, Andrew went on to serve overseas as a commissioned officer in the British Army.
Andrew Crichton Head of Operations PROJECT
He then returned to Africa and immediately set about working in support of efforts to protect wild places and species across the continent. Andrew has led on the design and implementation of wildlife crime prevention and other broader conservation projects in a number of countries across Africa.
Digby Douglas Dufresene
W: www.elephantprotectioninitiative.org
PROJECT
The EPI Foundation
Co-ordinator PROJECT
PACE Africa
Sustainability Coordinator
Kenya
A graduate of Stirling, Edinburgh and Bangor universities in the UK, Penny has a BSc in Environmental Science, MSc (Dist.) in Biodiversity & Plant taxonomy, Adult Training and Development and Project Management qualifications. A research career in the 90’s explored forest dynamics, disturbance and recovery in tropical ecosystems, a specialist in ecology and identification of juvenile trees, and communication of these subjects within and across knowledge domains (formalinformal knowledge and expertise). For 20 years, she has focused on developing, testing and implementing techniques, resources, and process for building conservation values, practices and lifestyles that support healthy, viable, and sustainable human and wildlife communities. She works with and in schools, education authorities and informal education providers, receiving training at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) and designing teacher training programmes. Penny’s home was in Cameroon from the 1990’s-2016. She used PACE widely in Cameroon, and has been coordinator since 2016, deeply committed to keeping it relevant, up to date, and a support to Conservation. W: www.paceproject.net
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W: www.milgistrust.com
Miligis Trust
South Africa
Penny Fraser
Born and raised in Kenya, Digby is the sustainability coordinator at the Milgis Trust. For the past five years he has been developing and delivering conservation and humanitarian projects in the Milgis ecosystem. Currently he’s trying to find ways for pastoralist communities to continue coexisting with wildlife. He is passionate about beekeeping and forests.
Director of Conservation Programmes
Miguel Garcia is the Director of Conservation Programs at the CCC. With a bachelor in biology and a masters in conservation. He has worked with research and conservation projects around the world in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Nigeria, Myanmar and Guinea for over 10 years. At the moment he is in charge of all conservation activities at the CCC. These include: environmental education, community development, park protection, in close collaboration with the authorities of the High Niger National Park, and the CCC’s research programs (camera trapping, surveying potential release sites).
PROJECT
W: www.projetprimates.com
Miguel Garcia
Chimpanzee Conservation Centre Guinea
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Issa Gedi Director Governance and Capacity Building PROJECT
Northern Rangelands Trust Kenya
In 2014, Isa joined the newest emerging region of NRT in the Coast as a Senior Conservancies Development Officer. He has played key role in leading a wide and varied range of conservation and community development themes, including developing and implementing strategy, communitybased fisheries management, resourcebased conflict and peace resolution, institutional governance, development of management plans, enterprise development, securing operational funds and overseeing strong financial management. In 2015, Isa was appointed as the chief programs officer for NRT-coast in acting capacity. These roles and responsibilities have given him the opportunity to influence the development of seven community conservancies in the NRT-Coast Unit. In April 2021, Isa was promoted to the Director of Governance and Capacity Building to replicate the success of NRT-coast region to the other 4 regionals restructured in NRT landscape.
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Caroline Grace Hannweg Conservation Researcher PROJECT
VulPro South Africa
Ana Grau Conservation Monitoring and Evaluation Director PROJECT
Lion Landscapes Tanzania
W: www.lionlandscapes.org
VulPro aims to protect African vultures through innovation and collaboration, and she is currently setting up my PhD thesis on the movement and breeding ecology of African White-backed Vultures across southern Africa with the University of Pretoria and the Max Planck Institute. In the first two years of her time with VulPro she has been able to establish a growing knowledge on vultures and their conservation, with a number of publications in prep, and she looks forward to continuing that in the coming years. W: www.vulpro.com
W: www.nrt-kenya.org
Ana is a conservation biologist from Madrid. Having received her BSc and MSc from Complutense University of Madrid in Biology and Conservation Biology respectively. After graduation she worked at GREFA in Madrid with captive breeding and reintroduction of several species of raptors. She has spent time working on research projects in Belize, Nigeria, the USA and Tanzania. She joined Lion Landscapes in 2017 as a senior researcher and now oversees data, systems and evaluation tools as the Conservation M&E Director.
Caroline is a young conservation researcher based in Pretoria, South Africa. Most recently she completed her MSc (Wildlife Management) at the University of Pretoria, studying factors affecting owl ecology in an agricultural matrix. She is currently employed as a researcher at VulPro, a vulture conservation centre based in South Africa, leading the way in the many spheres of vulture conservation.
Amos Gwema Principal Wildlife Investigation and Intelligence, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority
Amos holds the post of Principal Wildlife Investigation and Intelligence officer for Zimbabwe. He has 16 years working experience in wildlife conservation and 10 years working in the law enforcement field achieving considerable success in the field of conservation. He has worked at the Having worked at Hwange National Park for the past 16 years to date and managed to apprehend wildlife poachers leading to the reduction of elephant poaching in Hwange National Park from around 300 elephants poached in 2013 to a record of no elephant poached in Hwange National Park in 2020 and 2021. This feat has never been achieved before and was made possible after the arrest and conviction of poaching syndicate leaders. W: www.bhejanetrust.org
PROJECT
Bhejane Trust Zimbabwe
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DELEGATES
Elaine Hake Head of Communications and Advocacy PROJECT
Lilongwe Wildlife Trust
Elaine Hake joined Lilongwe Wildlife Trust in 2019 as Head of Development. She has over 13 years’ experience working in communications, campaigning, fundraising and policy in the not-for-profit sector, with a focus on conservation, gender and international development. She holds a BA in English Literature and Language from Oxford University and an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. One of her current priorities at Lilongwe Wildlife Trust is developing a new educational and interpretive plan for Lilongwe Wildlife Centre that will guide new signage, exhibits and experiential learning experiences for school groups and the general public. W: www.lilongwewildlife.org
Malawi
Dr Tessa Hempson Programme Manager & Principal Scientist PROJECT
Oceans Without Borders Tanzania
Dickson Ole Kaelo, is the founding CEO of the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA) a position he has held for 7 years, a period that has seen the growth and recognition of Kenya’s wildlife Conservancies as a viable strategy for addressing biodiversity loss and rural poverty reduction goals.
Dickson Kaelo Founding CEO PROJECT
Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
Kenya
He is a conservation ecologist with over 20 years of experience in designing models and practical solutions linking conservation and community development. He has worked with various community groups around East Africa’s Maasailand in field research, policy, institutional development, integrated natural resource management and designing of conservation projects. During his 10 years supporting community conservation, Dickson facilitated the formation of the first 6 community conservancies securing 870km2 land for conservation in the Maasai Mara. Dickson has won a number of prestigious awards including being a 2018 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa finalist. W: www.kwcakenya.com
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Dr Gladys KalemaZikusoka Founder and CEO PROJECT
Conservation Through Public Health
Uganda
Dr Hempson works for (OWB), a project partnership between &Beyond and Africa Foundation dedicated to marine conservation and community development in East Africa. She is also an Adjunct Researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Australia, where she completed her PhD, and continues to work with the world’s leading marine scientists. Recognising the importance of working at multiple scales and the need for effective inter-sectoral partnerships OWB offers a unique platform for bringing together diverse stakeholders to address the complex challenges facing marine conservation. At a local scale, Dr Hempson’s work in East Africa focuses on the inseparable links between coastal communities and the marine resources on which they depend. At a global scale she endeavours to raise awareness around marine conservation issues. W: www.andbeyond.com
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is a wildlife veterinarian, and Founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an award-winning NGO that protects endangered gorillas and other wildlife through One Health approaches. Dr. Gladys is a National Geographic Explorer and a finalist of the 2019 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa. She is the winner of the 2009 Whitley Gold Award, 2018 Sierra Club Earth Care Award and 2017 Golden Jubilee Medal from the President of Uganda. In 2020, she was awarded the Uganda Veterinary Association World Veterinary Day Award and Aldo Leopold Award for Mammologists. In 2021, she was recognised by Avance Media among 100 most influential women in Africa and won the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Champions of the Earth Award in the category of Science and Innovation. W: www.ctph.org
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John Kamanga Director PROJECT
SORALO Kenya
With a background training in Anthropology and community development, John has worked with various communities across the country, especially in rural areas of Kenya, for over fifteen years. Currently the Director of the South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO), In this capacity his mandate is to work with pastoral communities to promote biodiversity conservation through promotion of open and interconnected ecosystems, the Iconic Maasai culture which is the basis for sustained wild spaces and tourism in the region between the Maasai Mara and Amboseli in order to enhance livelihoods and better management of natural resources. He has also had first hand grassroots leadership experience with different communities. Because of his efforts in community conservation, he was awarded the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden’s Conservation Leadership award in 2013 and the 2020 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa.
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Benson Kanyembo Law Enforcement Advisor PROJECT
Conservation South Luangwa Zambia
W: www.soralo.org
Tjipo Keaikitse Program Facilitator PROJECT
Coaching Conservation Botswana
Tjipo studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities at the University of Botswana, majoring in Sociology and Environmental Science. Since graduating, she has pursued a career in children’s education, working mostly with primary school children and various programs. To fill a need, she spearheaded her own outdoor education initiative called Campfire, before she joined Coaching Conservation in 2019, where she is now the program facilitator for Botswana. Tjipo has led her growing team of CC coaches, who have now delivered the Vulture RAP to over 1000 grade 6 students in the North West region of Botswana during the year 2021. The thrill of seeing a child’s face when they learn something new, or seeing an animal in its natural habitat for the first time, is magical. She is passionate about children and conservation. W: www.coachingconservation.org
Joseph Kyalo Kimailie Monitoring Officer PROJECT
Tsavo Trust Kenya
Benson has devoted over 25 years of his life to protecting Zambia’s wildlife. In 1994, Benson started his career in wildlife enforcement as a scout for the North Luangwa Conservation Project. In 1997, The National Parks and Wildlife Service took over the programme and he became a village scout and rose through the ranks to Senior Wildlife Police Officer in charge of the training of all scouts. In 2009, Benson joined CSL as Operations Manager, and during the restructuring in 2018 was promoted to Law Enforcement Advisor. He leads all CSL anti-poaching law enforcement and wildlife rescue operations in collaboration with DNPW. He has facilitated the growth and development of the anti-poaching unit from 30 to 92 scouts. In 2019 he was awarded the Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award by Tusk’s Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Cambridge. W: www.cslzambia.org
Kyalo joined the Tsavo Trust as Head of Monitoring for the Trust’s Big Tusker Project. He is responsible for coordinating the Big Tusker ground monitoring unit in collaboration with the KWS Tsavo Research Centre. He has a degree in Wildlife Management from the University of Eldoret in Kenya and currently pursuing a Masters of Science degree in Geoinformatics. Kyalo did his internship with the KWS attached to Tsavo in 2012. For over a year, Kyalo was a volunteer field assistant to the KWS working in the greater Tsavo Conservation Area. This saw him gain experience in various biodiversity research and monitoring projects including remote and ground monitoring of Elephants, Hirola and Grevy’s Zebra ground monitoring, animal censuses, vegetation surveys and basic GIS applications among others. He is currently pursuing an interest in use of GIS and Remote Sensing in determining effects of climate chage and unsustainable water provision on Tsavo’s vegetation and in extension, wildlife. W: www.tsavotrust.org
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DELEGATES
Based full time in East Africa, Dr. Felix Lankester has a faculty position at Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health and is the Vice President of the Tanzanian based nongovernmental organisation Global Animal Health Tanzania.
Felix Lankester Deputy Director of Programmes
Dr. Lankester’s research interests are focused on multispecies pathogens that impact wildlife, livestock and public health and investigates novel cost-effective intervention strategies, often exploiting a One Health approach to disease control.
Julius Lekenit Deputy Director of Programmes PROJECT
PROJECT
Grevy’s Zebra Trust
Global Animal Health Tanzania
Kenya
Tanzania
Julius Lekenit comes from South Horr in Samburu North, Samburu County and joined Grevy’s Zebra Trust (GZT) in March 2012. Julius has a BSc in Environmental Science from Kenyatta University with previous work experience in participatory forest conservation. Julius’s personal story of how he got his education is inspiring, having come from an extremely humble background, to graduating with a Masters in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge in 2018. Julius is the Deputy Director of Programs, responsible for overseeing Grevy’s Zebra Trust’s regional programs in the expansive Northern Kenya Landscapes and supporting the organisation’s Regional Coordinators to effectively implement the Grevy’s Zebra Scout, Ambassador and Warrior programs. Julius also oversees GZT’s engagement in the peace-building process in El Barta and develops strategic partnerships with stakeholders in Grevy’s zebra range. Julius is a 2019-2021 cohort of African Conservation Leadership Network. W: www.grevyszebratrust.org
Andrew joined SRT in 2019 and before that worked with communal conservancies in Namibia for close to a decade. Andrew is responsible for strategic planning and programme management at SRT. He is based at the admin office with regular visits to the field.
Andrew Malherbe
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Andrew has an MA in Development Studies from the University of South Africa. W: www.savetherhinotrust.org
Dr Dominic Maringa
Chief Operating Officer
Head of Conservation
PROJECT
PROJECT
Save the Rhino Trust
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Namibia
Kenya
Dominic Maringa has a background in Forestry, and 15 years’ professional experience in water, forestry and wildlife conservation. Dominic’s passion for conservation has enabled him to explore further studies and research in natural resources conflicts in central and northern Kenya. He is the current Head of Conservation in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, where he leads various conservation programs, conservation partnerships, research and related networks regionally and internationally. W: www.lewa.org
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DELEGATES
Rachel McRobb was born and raised in Zambia and after schooling in Swaziland and South Africa, she returned to Zambia to work at first in the tourism sector and then in conservation.
Rachel McRobb CEO and Cofounder PROJECT
Conservation South Luangwa Zambia
Twenty years ago Rachel made the Luangwa Valley her home and is the CEO and cofounder of Conservation South Luangwa, a local NGO working to protect wildlife and support people in South Luangwa Valley. Under the guidance and leadership of Rachel, CSL employs over 110 staff from the local community. Their holistic approach includes a wide range of protected area management support including communitybased rangers, law enforcement training and equipment, K9 teams, aerial support, a wildlife veterinary rescue unit, a largescale human wildlife conflict co-existence program, community snare patrols and community game drives. Rachel is a WE Africa fellow from the first cohort of 2021 selected Women for the Environment.
Dr Crystal Mogensen Chief Executive Officer PROJECT
Maa Trust Kenya
Originally from the UK, Crystal undertook research in the Maasai Mara from 20072014 and began working for The Maa Trust in January 2015. She has lived in the Maasai Mara full time for the last 11 years. For her undergraduate studies she assessed the environmental impacts of tourism inside the Maasai Mara National Reserve and then for her Masters she examined the definition of ecotourism and the extent to which conservancies conform. For her Ph.D. she went on to investigate how development is defined within the Mara, and the extent to which conservancies contribute. This Ph.D. forms the research basis for all development interventions undertaken by The Maa Trust. Crystal met her husband Niels, who works for the Mara Predator Conservation Programme, in the Maasai Mara in 2011. W: www.themaatrust.org
W: www.cslzambia.org
Peter Munene Assistant Manager & Conservation Education Programmes Coordinator PROJECT
Mountain Bongo Surveillance Project Kenya
Peter is a conservation educator with over 10 years’ experience in conservation education field. Currently, he is the Assistant Manager and conservation education programmes and outreach coordinator (Bongo surveillance Projects). Under his leadership the organization has been able to establish 60 bongo wildlife clubs in four mountain ecosystems. Peter has successfully delivered conservation education curriculum to 86 different schools, and reached out to more than 2000 community members under his leadership. He has successfully founded the Bongo Wildlife Clubs and Community Conservation Champions which have been successful and replicated to other conservation ecosystems in Kenya. His efforts have seen the mountain Bongo population increase in operational areas. He is currently pursuing a diploma in projects monitoring and evaluation at Kenyatta University. W: www.mountainbongo.org
Dr Olivier Nsengimana Founder and Executive Director PROJECT
Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association Rwanda
In 2014, Olivier designed a unique conservation project to abolish the illegal trade of the endangered Grey Crowned Cranes in Rwanda and won the Rolex Award for Enterprise which allowed him to start implementing the work. He established Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association (RWCA) in 2015 to build on the work with Grey Crowned Cranes and expand research and conservation efforts to other endangered and threatened species in Rwanda. As a National Geographic Explorer since 2015, Olivier has also been a finalist in the 2016 Tusk Conservation Awards, received the 2017 National Geographic Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation in Africa, winner of the 2018 Whitley Awards, the 2019 Future for Nature Awards and the 2020 McKenna-Travers Award for Compassionate Conservation. Olivier is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and has a Master of Veterinary Science, Conservation Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, UK. W: www.rwandawildlife.org
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Dr Caleb Ofori-Boateng Director PROJECT
Herp Conservation Ghana
Dr. Caleb Ofori-Boateng is the first Ghanaian to study and work for the protection of amphibians in Ghana. He started the NGO Herp Conservation Ghana (Herp-Ghana) to raise nationwide awareness and canvas support for amphibian conservation. His research has resulted in the discovery of several new species to science and the rediscovery of populations that were thought to be extinct. Caleb’s work with government and communities has been both impactful and inspiring. In 2018, he worked with communities and government partners to establish Ghana’s first protected area for amphibians and legislate new municipal laws that prohibit hunting of some endangered amphibians. Aside Caleb’s work with the NGO HerpGhana, he is a senior research scientist with Ghana’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana), a regional projects manager for the Zoological Society of London’s EDGE of Existence Program (ZSL-EDGE) and a member of the Global Council of the Amphibian Survival Alliance.
Agatha Ogada Regional Partner Support Coordinator PROJECT
Blue Ventures Kenya
Agatha’s training is in conservation science and project management. The valuable lessons she has learnt in her professional life have been through interaction with the local communities she has had the privilege to work with. Her role is to support rebuilding tropical fisheries with coastal communities, drawing on local traditional knowledge of their marine resources to design projects adapted to the local contexts. By providing direct support to partner organisations in Kenya and Somalia in marine resource governance and management including providing best practice insights and recommendations from others with similar contexts. The core of her work is active listening and adaptive management. W: www.blueventures.org
W: www.herpghana.org
Dr Claire Okell is the founder of The Pangolin Project, a UK charity dedicated to the protection of pangolin species and the habitat on which they depend in Kenya. Claire originally trained as a veterinarian in the UK at the University of Liverpool before study for a Masters and PhD in veterinary epidemiology and economic.
Claire Okell Founder PROJECT
The Pangolin Project Kenya
After extensive field work in drought prone areas, she worked in the development and humanitarian sector in South Sudan and across east Africa before moving into conservation. She established The Pangolin Project in 2020 in response to the gap in knowledge about pangolin populations in Kenya despite the global illegal wildlife trade. In the last 2 years they have trained over 500 rangers and intelligence officers in pangolin protection and set up a team of dedicated pangolin ambassadors working in communities that live alongside pangolin. W: www.thepangolinproject.org
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Daniel Ole Sambu
Daniel began working with Big Life Foundation in 2009 and is the program coordinator of Big Life’s Predator Compensation Fund. He is responsible for ensuring strict compliance of the PCF rules and regulations, and overseeing program staff training, field visits and monitoring, conflicts resolution and data collection and analysis.
Predator Protection Program Coordinator
Daniel also acts as a community conservation mobilizer and community liaison related to many of Big Life’s other programs. He travels both locally and internationally sharing the success story of how communities and conservationists can work together for the mutual benefit of all.
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W: www.biglife.org
Big Life Foundation Kenya
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Sam Shaba Programs Manager PROJECT
Tanzanian born and raised; Sam is a Wildlife Management graduate of The Sokoine University of Agriculture. Sam Joined Honeyguide in 2014 to establish Honeyguide’s monitoring department. Promoted to programs manager in 2017, responsible for Honeyguide’s overall program management, overseeing program delivery, planning, and monitoring. He is leading a team of over 40 Tanzanians at one of the leading Tanzanian conservation organizations whose core goal is proving that sustainable community-based conservation is possible and critical to wildlife survival in Africa.
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Famau Shukry Field Officer
Sam has recently been listed among the Top 100 Young African Conservation Leaders and is pursuing the MBA for conservation leaders at the African Leadership University.
Lamu Marine Conservation Trust
Tanzania
W: www.honeyguide.org
Kenya
Ronnie Sibanda Marketing and Communications Manager PROJECT
Painted Dog Conservation Zimbabwe
He is born and bred in Hwange, home to Zimbabwe’s biggest national park and where PDC is headquartered. W: www.painteddog.org
W: www.lamcot.org
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Honeyguide Foundation
Ronnie Sibanda joined Painted Dog Conservation (PDC) in 2017. He has been instrumental in developing and implementing a Marketing and Communications strategy for PDC and manages its social media platforms and website. He also plays a critical role in developing and executing fundraising campaigns for different programs at PDC. Ronnie holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Media and Society Studies degree from a local university in Zimbabwe and certificates in Digital Marketing and IT Support.
Famau Shukry has served a field officer for the Lamu Marine Conservation Trust since 2013. He plays a vital role in promoting the goals and objectives of the organization to be achieved. His role includes, monitoring the sustainability of the project’s results, leading the environmental clubs of 13 primary schools and working closely with local community to increase environmental awareness and sensitization programs.
Sopia is the Chief Executive Officer of the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA), an umbrella body for conservancies in the greater Maasai Mara ecosystem with a current membership of 16.
Daniel Sopia CEO PROJECT
Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association
Kenya
He has had a decorated career spanning years of hands-on experience in conservation, from a silver-rated tour guide to programme work. Sopia has, for years, worked with communities to create conservancies and put in place structures to protect Kenya’s diverse ecosystems and enhance livelihoods. Notably, he played a key role in founding and establishing the Motorogi Conservancy and Olare Motorogi Community Trust in the Maasai Mara. He thereafter co-steered the Conservancy as a Director from 2006 to date. He played a critical role in the establishment of the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association and served as a founding board member, thereafter founding MMWCA which continues to strengthen conservancies in the greater Maasai Mara Ecosystem. W: www.maraconservancies.org
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Theresa Sowry CEO PROJECT
Southern African Wildlife College South Africa
Ms Theresa Sowry, CEO of the Southern African Wildlife College, holds a Master of Science Degree in Botany from the University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa. She gained conservation experience while employed by South African National Parks working on their rare antelope programme in the Kruger National Park. Starting in the education field as a Training Manager and Lecturer in Natural Resource Management, she was later promoted to Executive Manager: Training and more recently to CEO of the Wildlife College. Theresa’s latest passion is taking to the skies and piloting a Savannah S, Light Sport Aircraft. She has been able to successfully integrate this passion into a joint SAWC/KNP project, and monitors the rhino distribution pattern on a weekly basis across the Kempiana property. W: www.wildlifecollege.org.za
Ian Stevenson Chief Executive Officer PROJECT
Conservation Lower Zambezi Zambia
Australian born, Ian Stevenson arrived in the Lower Zambezi in 1997 where he began his involvement in wildlife protection. With almost 25 years-experience in protected area management, Ian leads one of Zambia’s first and most reputable NGOs, Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ). Ian also worked for African Parks for six years running protected areas in Ethiopia and northern Zambia before returning to CLZ in 2011. Ian is a veteran pilot, qualified in wildlife immobilsation and has GIS and aerial survey experience. Under Ian’s leadership, over the last 10 years CLZ has grown from 12 to over 80 employees and from supporting only foot patrols to now supporting specialised Dog, Rapid Response and Intelligence Units, an extensive environmental programme and a growing community programme combating the continuous human-wildlife conflict in the Lower Zambezi. W: www.conservationlowerzambezi.org
Jo Taylor Field Ecology Technician & Digital Media Coordinator PROJECT
Karingani Game Reserve Mozambique
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Jo Taylor is the field ecology technician and digital media coordinator for Karingani Game Reserve in southern Mozambique where she manages social media platforms and guides and implements wildlife monitoring as well as various other projects on the 150,000 ha tract of privately managed reserve. She has been involved in numerous conservation projects in Namibia, South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique and has assisted in projects focused on wild dog, leopard, hyena, cheetah and rhino conservation. She currently is the Public Relations Group leader for the Wild Dog Advisory Group and a council board member for the Southern African Wildlife Management Association. She holds a BSc in Wildlife Management and Conservation Ecology from West Virginia University and a MSc in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town. Jo’s research interests include carnivore population dynamics and drivers of movement across landscapes.
Simson joined SRT in the early 1990’s and has been at the head of the organisation since 2015. Simson has played an important role in establishing the communal rhino custodian as an effective tool to combat poaching and achieve rural development goals.
Simson UriKhob Chief Executive Officer PROJECT
Save the Rhino Trust Namibia
Simson’s commitment and dedication was honoured at the 2021 TUSK awards where he received the Prince William Award for lifetime achievement in conservation. The award confirms Simson’s impact on rhino conservation in Africa. Simson has an Msc in Conservation Biology from Kent University. W: www.savetherhinotrust.org
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Sara Vieira Technical Coordinator PROJECT
Programa Tato São Tome
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Sara Vieira is a marine biologist with over 12 years of experience in marine biodiversity research and. Over the past 10 years she has been dedicated to the management of environmental projects, particularly developing, implementing and managing conservation and research projects in the field of sea turtle biology, ecology and conservation in several countries in Central America and in the African continent. She has extensive experience in managing community-based conservation projects, implementing alternative livelihoods programs and engaging key stakeholders in the management and conservation of endangered species. Since 2014, she has been coordinating the Sea Turtle Conservation Program on São Tomé Island, (Programa Tatô). She is currently the vice president, scientific coordinator and one of the co-founders of the Association Programa Tatô, a PhD student at University of Algarve and a member of the IUCN Sea Turtle Specialists Group. W: www.programatato.org/equipa
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TUSK TRUSTEES & CONTRIBUTORS
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Tusk Trustees & Contributors
Barbara Barungi Lead Economist & Founder ORGANISATION
Imara Consulting Uganda
Barbara has over 20 years’ experience as an economist and development policy practitioner in Africa. Her career highlights include, advising the Rwandan government on social sector policy issues and helping to establish a poverty observatory. Working for the), where she initiated dialogue with ministries of finance and key sectorial ministries, the World Bank, IMF and bilateral donors. Helped shape the AfDB’s work in fragile states like Liberia and Zimbabwe. Barbara also served as AfDB Lead Economist in Nigeria, engaging closely with the Nigerian government and development partners on the Economic Growth and Recovery Plan (2017-2020). She has also worked at the United Nations Development Programme (2001-2009), leading the Poverty Reduction and Macroeconomics Management Unit and managing a multidisciplinary team of four experts working in the Southern Africa Development Community region. Barbara advised and brought technical support to 14 southern African-based UNDP country offices and national governments on formulating poverty reduction-related policy, analysis and monitoring.
Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Hakeen Bello-Osagie Investor and Senior Lecturer ORGANISATION
Harvard Business School Nigeria
Dr Susan Canney Director - Mali Elephant Project PROJECT
Tusk Trustee Mali
The robustness (so far) of the model has enticed her to continue the work to understand more about the complex factors involved in making space for elephants. She is a Research Associate of the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, a Trustee of Tusk Trust, a Tusk Conservation Award Judge, a member of the Sahara Conservation Fund’s Science and Conservation Committee, and of the African Elephant Specialist Group. W: www.wild.org/mali-elephants
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An advocate for higher education, Mr. Belo-Osagie is a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Board. Additionally, he serves as Chairman of the board of trustees of Harvard’s Centre for African Studies where he and his wife have endowed the Hakeem and Myma Belo-Osagie Distinguished African Entrepreneurship Lecture series. He is also a member of Yale University President’s Council on International Activities and the New York University President’s Global Council. W: www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile. aspx?facId=1213348
W: www.imaraafrica.com
Dr Susan Canney has worked on a variety of nature conservation projects across Africa, Asia and Europe, and in policy research for the UK’s chief sustainability adviser. She has worked in central Mali since 2003, initially with Save the Elephants, and since 2006 with WILD Foundation to work with local actors to develop an integrated model of human-elephant co-existence that has protected this small, yet iconic, population of desert-adapted elephants, despite the lawlessness, insecurity and deepening jihadist insurgency that erupted in 2012.
A successful entrepreneur and businessman, Mr. Belo-Osagie has been a key player in the Nigerian economy for over three decades through his participation and development of several businesses in the private sector, particularly in energy, finance and telecommunications.
Beatrice Karanja Conservation Philanthropist & Founder Nature’s Pitch PROJECT
Tusk Trustee Kenya
Beatrice is a strategic communications specialist with over 25 years’ experience as a development communications professional covering the African continent with extensive experience in East, Central and Southern Africa. She has worked as journalist with BBC and Reuters and for several international NGO’s – African Wildlife Foundation, UNICEF, Oxfam (GB). She has also consulted for Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Kofi Annan Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stop Ivory, Northern Rangelands Trust and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. As a child of Africa with roots in Kenya and Uganda, Beatrice has a strong and unyielding passion for African development and environmental issues and believes that the conservation and development can co-exist and is keen to play her part to make sure Kenya’s future is sustainable, balanced and wise.
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Nick Maughan Investor & Philanthropist Nick Maughan Foundation
Nick Maughan is a British ESG investor and philanthropist. He was born in January 1980 in Hammersmith, London where he lived and was educated before studying religion and theology at the University of Manchester. He returned to London to complete his Masters in Finance at Cass Business School. At the age of twenty-four Nick left the UK to work in the United States before spending ten years setting up software companies in Bulgaria. He is the founder of Maughan Capital, a strategic investment fund focused on impact investment and emerging technologies. W: www.nmf.org/about
TUSK TRUSTEES & CONTRIBUTORS
Alexander is a trusted advisor to typically international clients, with more than 15 years legal and global consultancy experience
Alex Rhodes Head of Purpose - Mischon de Reya PROJECT
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Tusk Trustee UK
Tusk Chairman UK
A seasoned litigator, he has particular expertise in the resolution of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, usually with reputational aspects, and public affairs. As a trustee and advisor, Alexander’s longterm preoccupation has been balancing the imperatives of environmental conservation and human development. He was the founding CEO of the charity Stop Ivory; head of the Secretariat to the inter-governmental Elephant Protection Initiative; and is a Chairman of Tusk Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a Conservation Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). In 2018 the ZSL named him its Conservationist of the Year in recognition of his work supporting African governments in combatting the illegal ivory trade and in elephant conservation. W: www.mishcon.com
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Tusk Team
Dan Bucknell Executive Director
Julie Cure
Dan began working in conservation in Cameroon, first at the Limbe Wildlife Centre from 2000-2001, and then as a research assistant for the Cross River Gorilla Research Programme in 2002. From 20022009 he worked for the Gorilla Organization, first as Grants Manager, and then as Regional Programme Manager. From 20092014 he was Head of Conservation and Campaigns at Elephant Family (working on Asian elephant conservation), from where he joined Tusk as Executive Director in 2014.
Charlie Mayhew MBE Founder and CEO
Julie Cure started her finance career in 1997 as an auditor before joining the Australian Trade Commission in Sydney in 2000 as a grants assessor. In 2002 she returned to the UK and worked as Management Accountant at the City of Bath College, Management Accountant for BBC Audiobooks and Finance Manager for a regional arts charity. Julie took up the role of Head of Finance with Tusk in 2016.
Ivy Wairimu Wanjira has worked as Tusk’s Africa Programmes Co-ordinator since March, 2019. Prior to Tusk, she worked as Communications Officer for the Northern Rangelands Trust and Ol Pejeta Conservancy and as Safaricom Marathon Co-ordinator for Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.
Head of Finance
Adele Emmett is Head of Fundraising at Tusk. She is proud to have worked for the Charity for 17 years organising events and heading up the fundraising team from the office in Dorset.
In 1985, led the 7-month Young Europe Africa Expedition from London to Cape Town and undertook a series of conservation projects. On his return he entered the financial sector before co-founding Tusk Trust in 1990. He gave up his commercial career and became the charity’s CEO in 2005, since when Tusk has grown both in revenue and reputation. The charity has built a partnership model with an extensive portfolio of project partners. Under Charlie’s stewardship, Tusk has also established the prestigious Tusk Conservation Awards and more recently the Wildlife Ranger Challenge as a response to the Covid crisis. In 2022, the charity will surpass £100m raised for conservation in Africa. Charlie also sits on the Board of The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust and in 2005, he was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen in recognition of his services to conservation in Africa.
Ivy Wairimu Africa Programmes Coordinator
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Information Technology from Strathmore University, Kenya and a Master’s Degree in Media and Public Relations from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
Adele Emmett Head of Fundraising
Anna Hunt Philanthropy Manager
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Anna joined Tusk as Philanthropy Manager in 2016 and manages relationships with Major Donors, including Tusk’s Patrons’ Circle. Before Tusk she worked in fundraising at WWF-UK, and previously had roles at the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and Marwell Zoo in the UK. Anna has a BSc in Zoology and MSc in Behavioural Ecology, reflecting her lifelong passion for wildlife.
Sarah Watson Director of Programmes
Sarah moved to Africa a month after finishing University - she has a BSc Hons in Biological Sciences from Bristol University. She was only meant to stay for six months but over twenty years later she’s still here. Sarah started working for Tusk 20 years ago organising the charity’s annual marathon held in Kenya and is now Director of Programmes. She works from an office at the bottom of her garden on the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy surrounded by her menagerie of children, snakes, cats, rhino and dogs. Sarah recently took up Ultra Marathon running (she says it’s her only way of escaping emails), and she has recently returned to University to do an MSc in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health.
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Covid-19 Protocol Covid-19 guidance and protocol for exchange visit General guidance during the visit
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During the visit, we ask that you follow these measures to limit the risk of contagion to both participants and communities:
Event organisers will help where needed with logistics, i.e. rearranging of flights, transport, food and water
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If anyone needs emergency medical attention, the emergency contact will seek immediate medical assistance from the most appropriate medical facility
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Any additional costs incurred as a result of a positive Covid-19 test result during the visit will need to be covered by the participant and/or their organisation.
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Maintain social distancing throughout the event where ever possible, and avoid shaking hands.
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Wear a mask in all communal areas of the lodge. These are optional for the symposium sessions.
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Sanitise hands frequently (hand sanitizer and spare face masks will be provided).
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If at any time you feel unwell, please inform the emergency contacts as soon as possible. Please see below for more information on common symptoms relating to Covid-19.
Covid-19 protocol If any participant (including the event organizers) feel unwell and/or present symptoms of Covid-19 at any point during the visit, the following steps will be taken: 1.
The affected person will need to isolate from the group in their hotel room
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They will then be asked to take a Covid-19 test supplied by Tusk team, and remain isolated until the results are returned. (Results take up to 24 hours)
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If the test is negative: The participant will be able to rejoin the group (if they feel well enough)
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If the test is positive, the following steps will be taken:
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For anyone that receives a positive test result:
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Must continue to isolate in their room.
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Contact tracing will be done to find people who have been in close contact and they will be asked to take a lateral flow test
Main symptoms of COVID-19: (As per UK National Health Service (NHS)) •
A high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
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A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
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A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal
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