Daniel Maswahu Munyanya

My name is Nellia Felicity Nyoni, and I was born in Zimbabwe. I have lived in Namibia, where I pursued my undergraduate and postgraduate studies. I worked with pigs, dairy cattle during my internships in Namibia. I have met a lot of good people that have helped shape the lady I am today. I developed a love for GENOMICS, a field I thought was impossible to understand. Currently doing a PhD in genetics, biodiversity and evolution at the University of Porto.  And am excited to have completed the Project Management for Wildlife Conservation V4, and I look forward to working with the great and exceptional Wildlife team members. 

Damas has MSc in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Water Resources and Environment Management from University of Twenty in Netherlands, is a well-trained Civil & Water Resources Engineer and Environment Expert. his expertise lies in areas of Hydrological Modeling, WASH, community-based natural resources management, institutional strengthening, GIS and Remote Sensing, governance, Integrated Water Resources Management, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Strategic Environmental Assessment, Development of Land use and Forest Management plans, Stakeholders engagement in development process and Resources mobilization, Forest Landscape Restoration, Wetland mapping and monitoring, Project Monitoring and Evaluation and Design of hydro-meteorological monitoring stations. He possesses 12 years of progressive practical experience in the Water and Conservation sector in Tanzania. He has hands-on experience in planning, designing, managing, and executing Water Resources Management Projects as well as Conservation Programs. Damas has worked with various organizations including the Ministry of Water in Tanzania as Hydrologist he was involved in the development of Integrated Water Resources Development and Management Plan (IWRMDP) of the Lake Nyasa Basin Water Board, Songwe River Basin Management Plan (SRBMP), He has also been working with African Wildlife Foundation (AWF-International Conservation Organization) coordinating water resources management programs, and he is currently working with WWF as Program Executant WASH and IWRM. He is mainly responsible with coordination and delivery of Mara River Catchment Conservation (MRC) Project (USAID funded Project) and Mara Wetland Conservation Project (WetCoP) in the Serengeti - Mara sub-landscape of the Southern Kenya – Northern Tanzania (SOKNOT) Landscape.

I am an environmental educator and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oulu (Finland), specializing in ecojustice education, human-wildlife coexistence, multispecies governance, and transformative approaches to biodiversity education. My work bridges education, animal law, and environmental diplomacy, with a focus on the legal, pedagogical, and cultural shifts needed to foster peaceable coexistence between humans and other species. I work on reimagining multilateral governance by integrating Rights of Nature frameworks into diplomacy simulations, including Model United Nations frameworks, co-designed participatorily with teachers, students, researchers and rangers. I have extensive experience building meaningful and sustainable international cross-sectoral partnerships and currently co-lead the multispecies education work package in the MUST: Enabling Multispecies Transitions in Cities and Regions research project and serve as Principal Investigator and Co-lead of an International Strategic Partnership with the University of Namibia, focusing on human-animal coexistence in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). I also lead the development of an online biodiversity education course as part of the UniPID GLOBUS (Virtual Studies for Global Sustainable Development in Southern African Collaboration).  I co-coordinates teacher education on multispecies environmental education and have led diverse international research initiatives, including in Portugal, Finland, and Namibia.  I am also Founder and Director of Wilberhouse, an environmental education organization rooted in multicultural storytelling and community engagement.

I am a conservationist based in Namibia, I work for Save the Rhino Trust which is a conservation NGO responsible for the monitoring of free-roaming black rhino on communal land. I have over 9 years of experience in community-led conservation in the north-west of Namibia.

I am a passionate communicator and researcher with an extensive background in the environmental humanities and social sciences, dedicated to exploring and fostering connections between people and nature. Based between Sweden and the UK, I work in academia as a researcher and lecturer, teaching courses in environmental law, historical ecology, and disaster risk management. I actively contribute to non-profit organisations promoting conservation and animal welfare. I work with Faunalytics, translating complex research into accessible insights for evidence-based advocacy; write feature articles for Ubuntu Magazine spotlighting conservation initiatives; and serve as Community Advocates Coordinator at WildHub, driving strategic communications and leading initiatives that connect and empower conservation practitioners worldwide. When I’m not working, you’ll find me hiking forest trails with my dog or enjoying a good cup of coffee.

My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity exchange. I researched mother-young interactions in gorillas and chimpanzees, in captivity and the wild. After that, I worked for three years in Indonesia, where I developed and implemented youth ambassador and community engagement programmes on local and regional scales. I co-founded WildHub, a community of nature conservation professionals, in 2020 and work as their Community Lead. I am furthermore on the Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent where I obtained my PhD on capacity development for conservation in 2022. 

I studied biology because I would love to work in ecosystem and biodiversity conservation, evolutionary biology, zoology, botany, microbiology, ethology and/or ecology, and I would love it even more if I did it in conjunction with biostatistics and data science. My other passion is science communication, I really enjoy communicating what I know and spend time preparing for it (making presentations in a careful and elaborate way, rehearsing the presentation, etc.), and this is closely related to my teaching experience. so another profession that would make me very happy is to be a biology teacher.

I'm Liane, and I am a WildLearning Specialist at WildTeam! I'm looking forward to getting to know you all! For the last few years, I've been working in Seychelles, focusing on island and marine conservation efforts, particularly coral restoration and turtle nesting monitoring. If you ask me questions about coral, be prepared for me to get very nerdy about it! Prior to that, I was managing a project in Northern Thailand, where I worked closely with a local community to set up ethical elephant experiences in their village. In my free time, I love running and hiking, and being anywhere in nature. I have also learnt to freedive in the last few years and enjoy doing that when possible. I'm really interested in talking to different people and learning from them and their unique experiences.