Winnie Kiiru

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Winnie Kiiru
Winnie Kiiru (Leading Kenyan Conservationist) & Peter Middlebrook (CEO Geopolicity Inc.).jpg
Kiiru at an Ivory Burn in Nairobi in April 30, 2016
Alma mater University of Zimbabwe
University of Kent
OrganizationWildlife Research Institute
Known forElephant conservation

Winnie Kiiru is a Kenyan biologist, elephant conservationist. She is the founder and past Executive Director of CHD Conservation Kenya, a CBO based in Amboseli that supports people-centered conservation.

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Education

In 1995, Kiiru earned a Master's degree from the University of Zimbabwe in Tropical Resource Ecology [1] and a PhD in biology from the University of Kent in Canterbury. [2] [1]

Career

Kiiru has worked for the Elephant Protection Initiative and the Stop Ivory initiative. [3] [4] Dr. Kiiru is a past member the Wildlife Research Training Institute in Kenya. [5] Kiiru served as a trustee of the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Amboseli Trust for Elephants. [6] [7]

Kiiru helped persuade the Kenyan government to publicly burn ivory tusks, and a video of the burning featured in the 2018 film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch . [8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Winnie Kiiru". www.elephanttrust.org. Archived from the original on 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  2. ↑ "To Count Elephants In The Forest, Watch Where You Step". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  3. ↑ "Two Sets Of Elephant Twins Born Amid Elephant Baby Boom In Kenya". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  4. ↑ "How can humans and elephants better coexist?". the Guardian. 2017-06-07. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  5. ↑ "Kenya starts its first national wildlife census". Reuters. 2021-05-07. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  6. ↑ "Can Economics Save The African Rhino?". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  7. ↑ "Meet the Team". www.elephanttrust.org. Archived from the original on 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  8. ↑ "Anthropocene project highlights the apocalyptic beauty of humans' effect on the planet". CBC. 26 Sep 2018. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
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