Dinda Prayunita
Program Development Officer (Terrestrial and Water Program), The Nature Conservancy Indonesia
I have spent my conservation career with a focus on supporting practitioner networks for community conservation and the conservation of charismatic megafauna. I serve as the Executive Director of the Painted Wolf Foundation, and continue to work with organisations like IIED, IUCN and organisations on the ground in Africa on the intersection between community conservation and combatting the illegal wildlife trade.
For over 20 years, Dr Debbie Saunders has worked as a wildlife biologist, specialising in threatened species conservation management and worked with diverse teams of talented people to develop the world’s most advanced drone radio-telemetry solution – resulting in the establishment of Wildlife Drones.
As a passionate founder, CEO and Chief Remote Pilot of this award-winning deep tech company, Dr Saunders gets to empower wildlife biologists and land managers to achieve greater insights and conservation impact all around the world by cost-effectively collecting more data, more often with less effort.
How can Wildlife Drones help you? - Track up to 40 animals simultaneously and in real-time - Survey difficult terrains like rugged mountains and swamp areas easily - Save time, effort and money so you can focus on what really matters - Collect more data, more often with less effort
She has received an ACT Innovation Award as well as an ACT Government Innovation Connect grant for her creative business solutions for challenging research problems.
Debbie believes that drones are a highly valuable and flexible tool that provide unprecedented opportunities for new insights into the world’s most complex and fascinating natural ecosystems.
Datu Lanelio Sangcoan
Chairman, Tribal Chieftain, Eco Warrior , Tribes and Natures Defenders Inc
I am the tribal chief, eco warrior and Chairman of the indigenous peoples led non profit organization, the Tribes and Nature Defenders Inc. I fight for our survival, identify and the remaining sacred forest for the next generation.
I have a long-standing background in people and organisational development in combination with conservation in South Africa. I graduated from DICE in 2019 and am especially interested in creating progress where conservation gets stuck due to human-human conflict, particularly on moral grounds.
To briefly introduce myself, I am an Indonesian conservationist, and i am working on Borneo wildlife conservation
I am a PhD student at the Wildlife Research Center and Department of Primatology at Kyoto University. I study the social lives and minds of lutungs (Trachypithecus spp.), with a focus on the limestone langurs (T. francoisi group). I am also an animal rights advocate and proponent of the compassionate conservation movement (sensu lato). I also like to draw and occasionally make things of clay, but not too often, because you'll have dry hands for at least a week. If you want to procrastinate on whatever you ought to do instead, here's my website: https://www.brendadegroot.com
I'm a biodiversity consultant working mainly in the corporate space. I work with large companies to help them figure out their nature-related impacts, dependancies, risks and opportunities, then use this information to create biodiversity strategies.
My research interests include the natural history & conservation ecology of small mammals, wild cats, Asian elephants, and tapirs, species responses to deforestation & habitat fragmentation, hunting & wildlife trade. I work at the interface between conservation science & applied wildlife management, using evidence-based approaches, statistical analysis, & technologies (EarthRanger, camera-trapping, acoustic sensors, RS imagery, SMART) to advise the conservation of wildlife populations in tropical Asia, Oceania and East Africa.
Andrea Baquero
Programme Officer, Science, UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre