Nachamada Geoffrey
Nacha is the Country Manager for ANI Foundation. Founded in in 2017 by African Professionals committed to bringing best practice nature conservation to West Africa, ANI aims to catalyze the participation of African opinion leaders n conservation to demonstrate that private sector led investment in protected areas can enable them become engines for local and national development. Prior to this, Nacha worked for the WCS Nigeria program for about a decade where he helped set up what was arguably the best managed protected area in Nigeria and one of the rangers he mentored went on to win the Tusk Africa Ranger award. Nacha is also a finalist of the Tusk Conservation Award in 2017. With an MSC from Oxford Brookes University and a certificate from Colorado State University, Nacha's expertise include law enforcement, fund raising HWC management, protected area management and community development. Nacha believes that conservation must make economic sense to the local communities for them to own it.
African Nature Investors Foundation
Country Manager
Nigeria
https://www.ani-nigeria.org
