Brennan first visited East Africa on a study abroad program in Karatu, Tanzania and quickly developed a passion for African wildlife and conservation. After completing his degree in biology and ecology, he returned to Tanzania to work for an elephant conservation project in Ruaha national park. Following that, he worked for Conservation Research Africa for four years, first as a research assistant in Kasungu national park and then as programs manager, overseeing both carnivore and bat research and conservation efforts across Malawi. He now works for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a human-wildlife conflict specialist, working to mitigate wolf-livestock and general human-wildlife conflict in northern California. With over 10 years of experience in wildlife conservation and research, Brennan maintains a strong passion for African wildlife and applying research findings to the many complex threats facing wildlife, habitats, and the people who share the landscape.
Arjun, with over a decade of wildlife research experience in eastern and southern Africa, is the Red List Authority for the IUCN SSC Hyaena Specialist Group, a National Geographic Explorer, and a member of the SCB Africa Chapter.His journey began in 2012 in northern Tanzania while on an undergraduate study abroad program. After finishing university, he worked for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and then the Brown Hyena Research Project in Namibia. In 2015-2016, he completed his master’s research focused on resource partitioning between spotted hyenas and lions in the Lewa-Borana Landscape, Kenya. In 2017, he began his PhD at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, focused on human-carnivore conflict and the responses of spotted hyenas to anthropogenic change in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. He defended his PhD on human-carnivore coexistence and the responses of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) to anthropogenic activity in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania on the 14th of June 2023
Angie followed her passion of Africa and all things wild by packing up her camera, getting on an airplane and experiencing what everyone warned her about; Africa does get into your blood and once it has, it does not let go of you anymore.While being one of the directors of a grassroots non profit, supported by several entities and a German zoo, she ran a volunteer program, several small conservation projects and continued filming and photographing wildlife and rangers. Today she is supporting conservation through consulting and building K-9 units as during the pandemic her life changed from running a non profit to becoming a dog handler and getting into reserve security.She was asked to build and train a K9 unit in Odzala Kokoua National Park (African Parks Network) in Congo, worked with and in various Reserves in South Africa, assessing, supporting training or helping with other needs like sourcing dogs.Currently she is also putting together an assessment and further steps to create a K9 unit for a concession in Zambia, looking into acquiring rhino and protecting the wildlife already roaming the bush from poaching and snares.
