Fredrick Kioko Kilonzo is a 25-year-old conservation leader from Kenya, and the Founder and Species and Sites Program Manager of NatureHub Collective Community Organisation. Shaped by the ecological wisdom of his community and his…
Maula Nadia is a marine biologist from Indonesia who is actively conducting both research and conservation for elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) through various initiatives. She is a Ph.D. student researching the use of molecular methods for elasmobranch fishery and…
Yamat Lengai is the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Adaptation Officer at African People & Wildlife, where she has worked since 2016. A native of Loibor Soit ‘A’ in northern Tanzania,…
Nicorll Maenzanise, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, is the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust. Her role involves supporting evidence-based wildlife conservation research and human-wildlife conflict…
Taylor L. Rabe is a Biological Science Technician with the Yellowstone Wolf, Cougar, and Elk Project and serves as Conservation Nation’s Education and Engagement Facilitator. In 2022, she became Conservation…
Alma "Rosie" Sanchez, a Conservation Nation Fellow, is the Carnivore Biologist for the Nez Perce Tribe and a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studies under…
Deepshikha Sharma, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, has always felt inspired by the stories of human resilience and is especially drawn to local stories and movements of community-led conservation.…
Andrea Thomen, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, is a conservation biologist and PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in the conservation of endemic Caribbean birds. Her research focuses…
Julee Jerang, a Catmosphere Fellow with Conservation Nation, is an Indigenous researcher from the Bori traditional territory in the Siang Basin of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. She is the first from…
Growing up on the island of Fuvahmulah, Hamna Hussain fell in love with the ocean and its apex predators at an early age. Driven by this passion, she became her island’s first female dive instructor, a journey…
Michelle Fournet is a National Geographic Explorer, an assistant research professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire, a behavioral ecologist, and the director of the Sound Science Research Collective.…
Amir Dehbi is a data scientist and applied machine learning researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in audio signal processing and deep learning for acoustic analysis. He applies…
Jessa Marie Caabay is an environmental scientist and marine conservation practitioner serving as Technical Manager of Community Centred Conservation (C3) Philippines. Her work focuses on dugong conservation, seagrass ecosystem protection, and community-based…
Dr. Reem AlMealla is a Bahraini marine ecologist and founder of Nuwat for Environmental Research & Education, Bahrain’s first environmental research and conservation think tank. Her work focuses on marine biodiversity conservation, coral reefs,…
What if listening may be the key to helping solve our biodiversity crisis?Not just hearing — really listening. To the roar of a lion. The haunting song of a humpback…
The biodiversity crisis is often framed as a science problem, but at its core, it is a human one — and it calls for a human-centered solution. Around the world,…
Conservation Nation is honored and thrilled to announce that our CEO, Tricia Reilly Koch, has been chosen to join The Explorers Club 50 — Class of 2026. Each year, the…
Andrea Fuentes, one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients, is an environmental engineer, conservationist, and founder and coordinator of the Jucumari Program in Bolivia. Her work focuses on the…
Ayushi Jain, one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients, is a PhD candidate at the University of Miami’s Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and a recipient of…
Fredrick Kioko Kilonzo, one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients, is an early-career conservationist and founder of NatureHub Collective Community Organisation, dedicated to community-based conservation and environmental justice in…
Maula Nadia, one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients, is a marine conservationist and co-founder of the Elasmobranch Project Indonesia (EPI), a local nonprofit dedicated to shark and ray…
Gabriela Sandoval, one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients, is an Ecuadorian biologist, committed to conservation and the protection of biodiversity and threatened species. From childhood, she has felt…
Dr. Jennifer Yu is one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients. Her interest in wildlife conservation was first sparked by volunteering at a local zoo in high school and…
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 holds a bachelor’s in natural…
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 Fairbanks and is working toward…
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. She is passionate about gender…
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 Sciences Comptables et de l'Administration…
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 the past decade, she has…
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 exploring the natural world and…
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 KI-ZERBO (UJKZ) in Ouagadougou, Burkina…
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 a master’s in applied ecology…
Deoclearancia “Lorna” Dax is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. Originally from the nature-deficient region of central Namibia, Lorna later developed a passion for conservation and community outreach…
Mukhlish ‘Jamal’ Musa Holle is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. As an ecologist, his focal area of interest is the sustainable management of agricultural landscapes in Southeast…
Eva Johnson Ayaro is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. Her passion for wildlife began during a high school trip to Serengeti National Park (SNP) in Tanzania, Africa—an…
Colleen O’Donnell is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. Her professional background includes work in wildlife conservation, community-based climate adaptation, wildlife crime reduction, sustainable and wildlife-friendly living, and…
Arpithamol “Arpitha” Joy is one of Conservation Nation’s 2024 conservationist grant recipients. Hailing from Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India, she developed an interest in nature and wildlife coexistence at a young age.Arpitha…
Novita is a newly designated 2023 Conservation Nation grant recipient. She earned her bachelor’s degree in marine science from Diponegoro University in Indonesia. She has been working on the Anambas…
Manuela Patricia Hernández Gómez is one of Conservation Nation's 2023 emerging conservationist grant winners. She is a renowned biologist and herpetologist who is passionately dedicated to the conservation of tropical…
Paola Nogales Ascarrunz is one of Conservation Nation's 2023 conservationist grant winners. She has years of experience leading projects dealing with the conservation of felids, from Geoffroy’s cats to jaguars…
Ny Aina Tiana Rakotoarisoa is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. She has spent more than a decade working in conservation in Madagascar, a country with extremely high…
Giovanna Bonadonna is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. Currently, Giovanna is a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is studying the impacts of…
Gabriela Agostini is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. For the past 15 years, she has been dedicated to studying the decline of amphibian populations, taking a leading…
Alys Granados is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. Her conservation experience has taken her around the world, from North America to Borneo, and has led her to…
Maria Angélica Tovar Bravo is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. She is a Colombian conservationist and professional biologist at the Universidad del Amazonas, where she received a…
Jessica Blakeway is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. She has held a deep love for the ocean ever since growing up in a small coastal town in…
Adriana Hernández Alvarez is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. Because she was born in a small coastal city, she has a longstanding love of the shore, and…
Naim Khandakar is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. Growing up in a rural area in the deltaic plains of Bangladesh, he was always passionate about nature. But…
Yudmila Chunguane is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. With a background in conservation and biology, as well as an interest in sustainable development, Yudmila has worked on…
Yitmwa Joel is one of Conservation Nation’s 2023 conservationist grant winners. She was born and raised in northern Nigeria, a biodiversity hotspot that forged a fascination and love for nature…
