Member profiles
Below you will find some of our current and past ISPAM participants. By attending ISPAM, participants automatically become a member of the Protected Areas Beyond Borders network!
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2023
ISPAM Members
Evangeline S Nyantee
Liberia
Design, plan and supervise all programs relating to protected areas management including national parks, nature reserves and national forests.
Formulate and enforce policies and regulations pertaining to protected area management. Ensure Protected Areas management practices are consistent with international treaties.
Madhav Khadka
Nepal – Teari Arc Landscape
Wildlife crime control and capacity building.
Md. Shams Uddin
Bangladesh – USFS/IP
Work at Khadimnagar National Park, Lawachara National Park, Sathchari National Park, Rema-Khalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Sundarbans mangrove.
Work with Planning, management, co-management, community engagement.
Jestina Kimbesa
Tanzania – USAID
Jestina works in the 6 major connectivity corridors in Tanzania. Work pertains to Land-use planning, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, stakeholder coordination, economic empowerment for communities, and coordinating corridor management groups.
Tuvshinjargal Erdenechimeg
Mongolia – Wildlife Science & Conservation Center
Wildlife biologist and researcher at the Khurkh Khuiten Nature Reserve.
Gustavo F. V. Silveira
Brazil – OPAN
I work for an NGO that supports the strengthening of indigenous organizations in territorial management actions within the Brazilian Amazon. We support surveillance actions and sociobiodiversity chains with management of non-timber products (nuts, oils, fish).
Jelena Marojevic-Galic
Montenegro – Parks Dinarides
I work on improvement of management of protected areas in Montenegro within the Balkan Waters Project, which aims to help protected areas identify and overcome gaps in management, existing policies and practices and strengthen their capacity related to protected area management and monitoring.
Sona Kalantaryan
Armenia – Caucasus Wildlife Refuge
Landscape restoration and wildfire prevention.
Stephen Kankam
Ghana – Hen Mpoano
Greater Amanzule Peat Swamp Forests in Southwestern Ghana. Mangrove restoration, participatory planning, livelihoods development, spacial and ecological monitoring.
2024
ISPAM Members
Goswin Evenyo Dzekoto
Ghana – Mole National Park
I support innovations and initiatives that encourage community and stakeholder participation in the management of Ghana’s largest protected area, the Mole National Park. My role is to encourage and mobilize grassroots organizations to participate in natural resource management. My job is to raise awareness about the park’s importance, as well as to provide a forum for debate and to develop governance institutions to settle conflict and bridge the gap between communities, protected areas, and local governments. Engagements include a number of high-level policy and legislative processes, as well as consultations, all aimed at the long-term development of protected areas. Critically, participation in sustainable green livelihood enhancement schemes to assist communities in the establishment of community-managed eco-tourism ventures, organic product value chains, and other income-generating activities that bridge the gap between conservation, biodiversity, and livelihoods. Climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges are not overlooked in this period. It is vital that fringe communities raise their knowledge, prepare for climate change, and contribute to its mitigation. My primary responsibilities include Climate Smart Agriculture, forest landscape restoration, organic agribusiness enterprises, bushfire management methods, and REDD+.
Mariam Akhter
Bangladesh – Bangladesh Forest Department
I am responsible for developing projects to protect and conserve the Protected Areas.
Mohammed Moyeen Uddin Khan
Bangladesh – Kaptai National Park, Pablakhali Wildlife Sanctuary and Sangu Wildlife Sanctuary
At present, engaged with the Education and Training wing of Bangladesh Forest Department, working for preparation of management plans for the protected areas.
Raed Alkhawaldeh
Jordan – Dana Biosphere Reserve
Developing and implementing conservation plans to protect and enhance the reserve’s biodiversity. Monitoring wildlife populations, habitat conditions, and ecosystem health. Enforcing regulations to prevent illegal activities such as poaching and logging. Collaborating with government agencies, conservation organizations, and local communities to promote conservation goals. Conducting research to improve understanding of the reserve’s ecology and inform management decisions. Managing visitor use and providing educational programs to raise awareness about conservation issues.
Refica Attwood
Antigua & Deps – Forest
Reforestation, Conservation, Eco-Tourism, Biodiversity, conservation and environmental education.
David Boseto
Solomon Islands – Tribal Owned Protected Areas
Provide technical support to tribal groups to register their tribal land as a protected area.
Shallon Challenge
Uganda – Central Forest Reserves
• Undertake Environmental and Social due diligence; Monitor and audit compliance of plans, programs, projects undertaken in Central Forest Reserves with laws and approval conditions
• Coordinate and collaborate research activities in all Central Forest Reserves
• Mainstream environmental and climate change concerns in all forest development plans and activities • Review Environment and Social Impact Statements for proposed projects in and in proximity with Central Forest Reserves.
• Carry out sensitizations on environmental management and climate change (including related policies, laws and programs on the environment/climate change)
Sakher al Zou’bi
Jordan – The Royal Society For The Conservation of Nature
veterinarian: Disease Diagnosis Surgeries Direct interaction with wild animals (oryx, wild onager, sand gazelle, ibex). Working with a team Assistant Director of the Department of Protected Areas and Technician: Writing management plans for natural reserves. Analyze problems and provide solutions. Formulating nomination files for reserves according to international classifications and implementing effective management.
Nana Afia Brenya Hodibert
Ghana – Cape Three Points GSBA
My responsibilities and duties cover community engagement and empowerment towards sustainable Protected Area Management practices. Engaging environmental NGOs to create Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) and partnering them to supervise and ensure CREMAs are active by way of monitoring, advising, directing and reviewing their activities through regular visits, livelihood empowerment programs, awareness creation, workshops/training and capacity building. Furthermore, I am also responsible for stakeholder engagement for the development of community management action plans for the strategic management of Cape Three Point GSBA
Talantbek
Kyrgyztstan – Alatai and Kan-Achuu State Natural Park, micro-reserves of local meaning “Baiboosun” and “Zhargylchak”
Coordination of the implementation of wildlife conservation projects Supporting the development of a protected area management plan Conducting capacity building trainings and workshops for rangers. The process of establishing ecological corridors for wildlife migration
Hagay Yavlovich
Israel – Forests and Maquis shrubland
At the beginning of my career in our organization, I took on a big challenge, to be in charge of the Ben-Shemen Forest and its surrounding. This is a large and complex area, perhaps the most complex in Israel due to its location in the center of the State of Israel and therefore serves a large public that lives in the cities around the forest. After more than 5 years in that position as a forester, I became the director of the organization’s national seed center. At this job I responsible for the collection and delivery of seeds and propagating materials to the KKL-JNF nurseries, includes work at height and professional tree climbing. Also, I professionally responsible for the KKL-JNF nurseries. In addition, I am a member of many committees for planting planning and long-term ecological planning and management of forest areas and their surroundings.
Tamara Nicholson
Ghana – Cockpit Country, Cedar Valley, Mason River and Bogue
The work I do is largely centers around reforestation and maintenance activities to promote the restoration of degraded forest lands and promote biodiversity, community engagement in alternative livelihood opportunities through grant funding from both local and international donors to reduce dependance in deforestation activities, and also the monitoring and reporting of deforestation activities within these protected areas.
Nina Vanishvali
Georgia – Agency of Protected Areas Of Georgia
Management and coordination of administrative processes of the Agency of Protected Areas of Georgia; Participation in the organization’s structure improvement process; Participation in human resources development processes at the Agency; Development of staff encouragement and performance improvement programs;
Taryono Darusman
Indonesia – Halimun Salak National Park and other Mountain in West Java
Engage local community organizations, such as farmer groups, youth organizations (mountaineering organizations, trail running clubs, mountain bike clubs), and women farmer groups to protect, restore, and create restorative economic activities
2023 Member Posters