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Rebecca GoodmanAfrica Biodiversity Collaborative Group
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Countering Wildlife Trafficking in Mozambique - What’s Working and What Hasn’t
The presentation will provide background regarding the current wildlife trafficking problem in Mozambique, and how this fits within the region. It will cover some of the overlaps of wildlife crime with other illegal trades (e.g. narcotics, human trafficking), and for northern Mozambique in particular it will cover the breakdown in governance and the rule of law, and how this relates to recent insecurity. It will address responses that have been tried, what has not worked and what has worked, and what is being done now to tackle these problems going forward.
Speaker Bio
Alastair Nelson, Wildlife Conservation Society Counter Wildlife Trafficking, East and Southern Africa
Alastair Nelson has 20+ years conservation experience in the Horn of Africa, east and southern Africa. His career started in South Africa in anti-poaching and moved to black rhino monitoring, Grevy’s Zebra surveys in northern Kenya and working for the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program. He then established Frankfurt Zoological Society’s Bale Mountains Conservation Project in Ethiopia before moving to their Africa headquarters to oversee six protected area and ecosystem management projects. In 2010 he joined the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as an Assistant Director in the Africa program in New York. In 2012 he moved to establish WCS’s Mozambique country program – initially focusing on co-management of Niassa Reserve, and strengthening the national protected area management framework. In 2017 he took on a new role supporting WCS’s counter wildlife trafficking work in east and southern Africa, and links to Asia.