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Veronica Dandzo-Adzagudu

Veronica Dandzo-Adzagudu is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. She is a Ghanaian early-career conservationist passionate about saving threatened species from extinction. Veronica

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Shelby McCahon

Shelby McCahon is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. She has a bachelor’s in wildlife biology and conservation from the University of Alaska

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Risper Oteke

Risper Oteke is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. She is a trained environmentalist, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) practitioner, and storyteller.

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Rasolozaka Natacha

Rasolozaka Natacha is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. Hailing from Madagascar, she holds a master’s in business administration from Institut National des

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Preety Sharma

Preety Sharma is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. She is bi-racial, with roots in the Indigenous Lotha tribe of Nagaland, India. Over

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Pema Khandu

Pema Khandu is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. Hailing from the ecologically rich country of Bhutan, he has devoted his life to

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Parfait Thiombiano

Palamanga ‘Parfait’ Thiombiano is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. He has a master’s in animal behavior and ecology from the University Joseph

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Mai Trinh

Thi-‘Mai’ Trinh is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. She has a bachelor’s in environmental science from Vietnam National University of Science and

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