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  • Conservation South Luangwa/
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    • Board of trustees
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  • Resource Protection/
    • Anti-poaching ground patrols
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    • Aerial Unit
    • Community clean sweeps
  • Human-Wildlife Coexistence/
    • Background
    • Conflict mitigation
    • Livelihood support
    • Community awareness
    • Conservation Fun Run
    • Tetezani Luangwa Alliance
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    • Wildlife rescue
    • Veterinary outreach
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    • Donate
    • Sponsor a K9 dog
    • Buy jewellery and accessories
    • Wildlife artists support the K9 Unit
    • Luangwa Conservation and Community Fund
    • Thank you

Board of trustees - Zambia

 

Adrian Carr, Chairman

Adrian was born in Chipata and has lived most of his life in the Luangwa Valley. With an intimate knowlege of the area, Adrian understands some of the complex issues that surround community, conservation and wildlife. He is the son of the late Norman Carr, a well known and respected conservationist.

 

Carol Van Bruggen-Kuhn, Treasurer

Carol is a certified financial planner, who has spent over 20 years at Foord, Van Bruggen, Ebersole, and Pajak Financial Services in the USA. She has also been a consultant to business and professional clients for 30 years and has served on numerous boards. Carol first travelled to Africa in 2001, and returns to Zambia twice a year to support projects throughout the country. Carol founded Africa Hope Fund (AHF) in 2008 and has served as its CEO since its inception. The mission of AHF is to educate the next generation of young Africans to ensure their future by protecting their wildlife and natural resources.

 
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Edward Selfe, Secretary

Edward grew up in Dorset, UK. After taking an Economics degree, Edward took a year out before starting work in the City. This year extended considerably, and he has been living in South Luangwa since 2009. Starting out as a management assistant at a safari camp, he spent five years learning the tourism and hospitality industry and qualified as both a driving and walking guide. In 2014, he started Edward Selfe Photo Safaris and now runs specialist photo tours for guests across Zambia and beyond. When he is not on safari, he can be found at home in Mfuwe with his wife and daughter, or out in the bush.

 
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Aisling Ryan

Aisling is passionate about the role that business can play in transforming societal problems. She founded The Corporate Practice with the belief that impact is accelerated by partnership between corporates, government and NGOs. She works with these stakeholders individually and collectively to optimise their relationships with each other and maximise impact. Aisling consults across multiple sectors and has nearly 30 years experience in global strategy and communications. Her particular areas of interest are purpose, reputation management, corporate responsibility, sustainable transformation and impact consulting. In 2016, Aisling led the launch of #JoinTheHerd, a global lobby platform created to stop the ivory trade.

 

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Evans is a Zambian native. In 2002, he came to Mfuwe originally as a teacher. When Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust started conservation clubs in schools, he was one of the first patrons and it was from here that his love for conservation started. He has participated and led several projects in conservation, including anti-snaring campaigns. Evans also MCs the annual Fun Run held in Mfuwe.

 

Chris Breen

Chris first visited Zambia as a teenager in the early 1980s. A weekend visit to the South Luangwa National Park proved to be life changing and Chris came back to work at one of the safari camps between leaving school and going to university in the hope of getting Africa out of his system. It didn't work. He came back to Luangwa after university and spent two years running camps and guiding safaris before returning to the UK and, after a stint work for a travel agency in London, set up Wildlife Worldwide in 1992, a specialist tour operator. Wildlife Worldwide is one of the world’s leading wildlife travel companies and is part of a wider group of travel businesses (that Chris also established) called The Natural Travel Collection. 

 
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Simon Barnes

Simon is an author and journalist. He was Chief Sports Writer of The Times until 2014, and wrote a wildlife opinion column in the Saturday edition of the same newspaper. He has written many books about wildlife, including the Bad Birdwatcher trilogy and The Sacred Combe: A Search for Humanity’s Heartland about the Luangwa Valley. He is involved with a number of wildlife conservation organisations.

 

Nick Aslin

Nick arrived in the Luangwa Valley in the early 1990s and, as a resident of the area, was involved in tourism and wildlife conservation for over 10 years. In 2002, he and his wife moved to Lusaka. In 2009, he established a successful destination management company, Zambian Ground Handlers, which co-ordinates trips throughout Zambia for tourists from around the world.

 

Derek Shenton 

Derek was born in Zambia and comes from a prominent Mkushi farming family with a background in wildlife conservation. He runs Shenton Safaris in the South Luangwa National Park and spends approximately half of the year in the Valley and the other half in Lusaka with his family.

 

Shadrack Nkhoma

Born and raised in Mfuwe, Shadrack (‘Shaddy’) began his career under Norman Carr Safaris in 1998 and has since risen to the rank of Senior Guide and Logistics Manager for Time + Tide (formerly Norman Carr Safaris). Shaddy has had a passion for wildlife and conservation since an early age, inspired both by his parents and seeing wildlife first-hand on his long walk from home to school each day. To protect him from being attacked by animals, Shaddy’s parents taught him how to identify animal tracks and read the bush to keep him safe. Shaddy enjoys spending time in nature which he describes as medicine whenever he is stressed.

 

Board of trustees - UK

Alan Jamieson (Chair)

Simon Barnes

Chris Breen

Aisling Ryan

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