Nico Lubcker (He/Him)
Researcher, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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I'm ANDRIANARIVELO Miora Henintsoa, Master Degree's in Environmental Management, Consultant (Reshearcher) in the field of Animal and Plant Conservation, Natural Resources Management.
I have worked in field biology since 2013 with a focus on avian research, specifically wetland and coastal habitats. Most recently, I worked with Audubon Great Lakes to bring urban migratory bird monitoring to Grange Insurance Audubon Center. For several years, I worked with shorebirds and wading birds in Florida as the Avian Biologist with Rookery Bay Reserve. I have also presented multiple lectures for festivals or training courses such as the Florida Master Naturalist course and Rookery Bay's Festival of Birds. I currently reside in Central Ohio while staying active in national or international conservation programs such as Zoo Miami's Florida Flamingo Working Group to research American flamingo ecology or ResearchWild Inc's international internship research program.
I want to find new ways to have a positive impact on the environment and communities around the world. How I do this is pretty open; I have wide-ranging interests (including the arts and spending time outside) and am willing to adapt to changing circumstances.
Although I've stepped back from being a community advocate for the WildHub community, I'm still happy to answer questions about the platform and will do what I can to help connect people.
I have 25yrs experience living and working across ten African countries in the Horn of Africa, East and southern Africa - mostly working for international NGO's on Protected Area (PA) and national level conservation programs. More recently I am the Founder and Managing Director of Conservation Synergies - a contracting and consulting company that supports governments, donors, NGO's and other partners to look at conservation problems and issues from new angles, and to learn from experts from other fields.
I am also currently working part-time for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime as as a Senior Analyst into the Illegal Wildlife Trade in East and Southern Africa, and more generally into illicit flows in northern Mozambique.
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.
As Head of B Partnership funding and Business Development at OL Pejeta Conservancy, I am responsible for developing and implementing the organisation’s partnership funding strategy including everything from pipeline development and donor engagement, to grant management and compliance.