Beckie Garbett
Project Manager - Southern African Leopard Initiative, Panthera
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I´m PM4R Master certificated for BID and I work as a Project Manager at Natura International, an NGO dedicated to the creation of protected areas. I am in my last year of Biology at the National University of Cordoba and I am doing my final thesis on mammals in a reserve in my province. During my career I have done volunteer work in La Coronilla, Uruguay with sea turtles and I am currently doing a research internship in the project "Defaunacion de la mastofauna en la porción Sur del Gran Chaco Americano". I would like to specialize in conservation and ecology
Wildlife conservationist interested in the sustainable management of biodiversity and human-wildlife coexistence.
I believe that the greatest challenge in biodiversity conservation lies in reconciling global development goals with wildlife and protected area management. Fortress conservation has shown time and time again that the needs of surrounding communities cannot be ignored. We need sustainability in conservation, else we will not succeed.
This belief stems from a lifetime spent working and living in sub-Saharan Africa, from Kenya to Rwanda, from Botswana to Namibia. My post-graduate work on human-wildlife conflict in Rwanda reinforced this conviction: successful, sustainable conservation outcomes can only come with the full participation of people living with or near wildlife. A participatory approach will allow conservationists to make sustainable decisions, and will greatly facilitate the implementation of conservation projects.
Hedgehog Officer for the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, and BSc 1st class (Hons) Animal Behaviour & Wildlife Conservation graduate! I am obsessed with all things hedgehog, and my current role revolves around raising awareness about their decline, and how we can help them here in the UK. I also have a BTEC Level 3 in Animal Management where i learned alot about the more exotics side of wildlife, but with my native UK wildlife is truly where my heart lies. My first graduate job was as a recruiter for the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife trusts, but my expertise truly lie with all things hedgehog, and i am learning loads of different valuable skills through my journey to help them!