Wildlife Conservation Expo

Dr. Jane Goodall is the world’s leading primatologist, spearheading groundbreaking chimpanzee fieldwork since the 1960s. Her discoveries about the complexities of chimpanzee societies in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park have changed our perception of mankind’s relationship with animals. For nearly 60 years, Dr. Goodall’s research has redefined traditional conservation and taught the value of incorporating local people into the practice. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to expand her work, and helped create Roots & Shoots, a youth program that fosters the next generation of conservation leaders in 100 countries, in 1991. Today, Dr. Goodall travels the world as a U.N. Messenger of Peace to educate and inspire hope for conservation.

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Dr. Abdullahi Ali is an indigenous Kenyan conservationist born and raised in Garissa (home of the hirola). He works in the isolated and volatile regions of eastern Kenya and some parts of southwest Somalia that border Kenya. Despite being raised in a small village, Dr. Ali received his PhD in Ecology from the University of Wyoming where he also won the Outstanding Dissertation of the year award in 2016. In 2014, Dr. Ali founded the Hirola Conservation Program (HCP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the critically endangered hirola antelope in eastern Kenya. Dr. Ali works with local Kenyans and Somalis to save this endangered species while also improving local livelihoods. Ali is a member of the IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group and also works as a fellow for the Zoological Society of London’s EDGE of Existence (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) group.

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Dr. Rachel Graham is a conservation scientist with over 28 years of experience on projects around the world. She is the founder and Executive Director of MarAlliance, an international organization dedicated to the research and conservation of large marine wildlife, such as sharks, rays, turtles, and large finfish. Rachel has dedicated over two decades to working with traditional fishers on community-based fisheries and the research and conservation of apex marine predators, inspiring many shark researchers and conservationists. In 2011, she won the Whitley Fund for Nature Gold Award for her work, and in 2021, she was awarded a prestigious Pew Marine Fellowship to work with sharks, communities and protected areas.

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