Shivani Bhalla |
Special Matters Committee
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Ewaso Lions
Executive Director |
Born and raised in Kenya, Shivani believes the key to lion conservation is working in partnership with local communities. She founded Ewaso Lions in 2007 to promote co-existence between carnivores and people in northern Kenya. Together with her team, Shivani set up award-winning community programmes including Warrior Watch, Mama Simba and Lion Kids Camps. Shivani’s commitment to Kenya’s lions has earned her a 2014 Whitley Award, the 2013 Rabinowitz-Kaplan Prize for the Next Generation in Wild Cat Conservation, the ‘Africa’s Young Women Conservation Biologist of 2009′ award by the Society of Conservation Biology, the Virginia McKenna Award for Compassionate Conservation from the Born Free Foundation, and she has been named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. She is a member of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group, African Lion Working Group, Kenya's Large Carnivore Taskforce and a founding member of the Pride Lion Conservation Alliance. Shivani received her MSc. from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, has a BSc. in Environmental Science from Lancaster University and was awarded her DPhil in Zoology from Oxford University in 2017. Previously, she has worked for the Kenya Wildlife Service and Save The Elephants. Shivani moved to Samburu in 2002 and lives in the Ewaso Lions Camp in Westgate Conservancy with her two dogs Kura and Nanyori.
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