Presenter: Eunice Wang

About the presenter: Eunice is senior staff member from Kenya China Travel and Tours. She carries a decade-long experience of working in Africa.

Topic: Stories from Maasai Mara Ecosystem, South Kenya

Date: January 5, 2017

Time: 2:30 p.m- 4 p.m

Seminar presentation details: Focusing on the current situation in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem, the presentation will provide details on human-wildlife conflicts, local communities and tourism within the park.
UNEP-IEMP is working on a study entitled “Coupling wildlife conservation and sustainable livelihood- a probe into human-wildlife conflicts in the Mara Region, Kenya”. This is one of the component of Centre’s UNEP-NSFC joint project on “Ecosystem services assessment and sustainable management in East Africa protected areas” working with Kenya Wildlife Services.

About the Maasai Mara Ecosystem: It is situated in South Kenya and is one of the world’s most important habitat areas for a variety of wild African animals. This makes the ecosystem one of the major tourist attractions. Owing to severe human-wildlife issues, Maasai Mara is termed as a “conflict hot spot”.

Venue: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The event is open to all. 

To register, please contact: zainab.naeem@unep-iemp.org