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Peter Fearnhead is the CEO and co-founder of Africa Park. At the age of 13, he helped create a 2, 000-acre wildlife reserve in his hometown of Zimbabwe,and has been involved in conservation ever since. Peter graduated from the University of Natal and the University of Oxford with a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics and a master's degree in agricultural and resource economics. African Parks is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to address the problems of poor management and lack of funding in African protected areas. Currently, African Parks manages 14 national parks and protected areas in 9 African countries, covering 10.5 million hectares.
Mr. Anecto Kayitare is a senior environmental and social development specialist. In the past 20 years, he has worked with many international donor agencies (such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, etc.), regions, international organizations, and private enterprises to serve multiple nature conservation, natural resource management, and rural development projects. Established in 1895, the International Wildlife Conservation Society currently protects more than two million square miles in the world, intending to protect the 16 largest ecological priority areas by 2020. These areas cover more than 50% of the world's biodiversity.
Mr. Mamadou Alpha Kane is the head of the International Environment Governance Division of the Legal Division of the United Nations Environment Program. He is also the manager and coordinator of the African Elephant Fund. project. At the same time, he manages multi-million euro capacity building projects in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, which is being implemented in 80 countries. The work of UNEP's international environmental governance branch aims to strengthen the role of UNEP and the UN Environment Assembly as the world's leading environmental protection agency, promoting sustainable environmental development by bringing environmental issues into international decision-making and relevant forums, while supporting member states in meeting their environmental obligations.
Mr. Alphonce Mallya is a native of Tanzania, who joined the Nature Conservancy in 2010. He is the first African employee of the Nature Conservancy. His joining contributed greatly to the conservation projects of the Nature Conservancy in Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia. Mr. Alphonce has worked as a tour guide in Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia, and has also served as a national coordinator for the Tanzania Volunteer Program. The Nature Conservation Association was established in 1951 and is one of the largest non-profit environmental protection organizations in the world. It has been committed to protecting the land and waters of important ecological value globally, maintaining the natural environment and improving human well-being.
Mr. Emannuel is an anthropologist, natural resource protector and pilot dedicated to controlling poaching trade and protecting endangered wildlife in central and eastern Africa, mainly in Virunga national park, eastern of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He maintained the park during the 15-year civil war. In 2008, Mr. Emmanuel was appointed head of the Virunga National Park by the Congolese government. Virunga National Park was established in 1925 as Africa's first national park and was added to the UNESCO world heritage list in 1979. Virunga National Park is the most biodiverse protected area in African, with forests, grasslands, lava plains, swamps, eroded valleys, active volcanoes and glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains. It is an important habitat for endangered mountain gorillas.
Philip Muruthi has been with the African wildlife foundation for 16 years, ensuring that appropriate conservation science is integrated into the foundation's comprehensive conservation strategy. Besides, Mr. Philip Muruthi represents the African Wildlife Foundation in various international conservation dialogues, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the World Conservation Congress of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Mr. Philip Muruthi has obtained master's and doctoral degrees in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University, and has published many papers. Founded in 1961, the African Wildlife Foundation has protected a large number of endangered species and natural habitats since its establishment, and trained hundreds of local Africans to participate in conservation efforts.
Ms. Niu Hongwei has been the director of the Paulson Foundation's Nature and Environmental Protection Program since 2013. Previously, she was the China Program Director of the WWF American Chapter (2010-2013) and initiated the China Program of the Nature Conservation Association and served as the Chief Representative and National Program Director (1997-2008). Later, she served as the deputy director of the Nature Conservancy North Asia in the United States (2008-2010). In 2003, Business Week named her Asia Star (25 leaders in change). The Paulson foundation was founded in 2011 by Henry Paulson, the 74th Treasury secretary and former chief executive of Goldman Sachs. The Paulson foundation is committed to promoting economic growth and environmental protection in China and the United States through programs, advocacy and research.
Mark Rose is a zoologist with extensive field experience in remote areas of Africa and Asia Pacific. He has been CEO of FFI for more than 20 years. During this period, he has been working to transform FFI from an organization consisting of a few projects and most of the projects in China to a multi-level global conservation charity. FFI has launched more than 100 projects in more than 50 countries. Founded in 1903, FFI is committed to fully considering human needs based on scientific research and choosing sustainable solutions to protect endangered species and ecosystems around the world.
Zhang Boju is the Director-General of Friends of Nature, an environmental protection organization in China. He leads Friends of Nature in the formulation of more than 40 environmental public policies, and continues to promote China's environmental law and public participation process. Zhang Boju has participated in the founding of 7 non-profit organizations, social enterprises and foundations. He holds a master's degree in social sciences from the Chinese university of Hong Kong and a bachelor's degree in management from Beijing Jiaotong University. He also studied the Advanced Leadership in Philanthropy Management (ELP) program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Founded in 1994, Friends of Nature is the earliest non-governmental environmental protection social organization in China. Through environmental education, home energy conservation, ecological communities, legal rights protection, and policy advocacy, we will rebuild the connection between humans and nature, protect the precious ecological environment, and promote the emergence and growth of more and more green citizens. Friends of Nature is a strategic partner of Alibaba Foundation.
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