Animal Matters: Combating Poaching and Solving Human-Elephant Conflicts in the Maasai-Mara

“Combating Poaching and Solving Human-Elephant Conflicts in the Maasai-Mara”

Part of the Fall 2018 Animal Matters Seminars: Human-Wildlife Conflict Series

presented by Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy

Speaker: Marc Goss
CEO, The MARA Elephant Project

Marc has worked in the greater Maasai Mara for 10 years, starting as manager for Olchoro Oiroua Conservancy and then Mara North Conservancy. Marc assembled the first Rapid Response Unit for MEP in 2011 and in 2013 started working full-time with MEP. Before Marc moved to the Mara he completed his bachelor’s degree at The Evergreen State College, Washington. During this time Marc started sustainable woodlot cycles and tracked the bongo antelope in Kenya’s Aberdare National Park under the guidance of Richard Leakey. He is also the current Kenya Wildlife Service Honorary Warden for the Maasai Mara.

Event page for more details, biographies, etc: http://news.vet.tufts.edu/2018..../09/mara_elephant_pr

Made possible by the generous support of: Elizabeth A. Lawrence Endowed Fund

About Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy (CAPP)
The mission of the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy is to conduct and encourage the study of complex issues surrounding the changing role and impact of animals in society. The Center supports the development and dissemination of research driven policies, programs and practices that benefit both people and animals. Work conducted by the Center is based on the tenets that animal well-being matters, that animal and human well-being are linked, and that both are enhanced through improved understanding of human-animal relationships.

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