Dr. Susan Canney
Susan Canney has been working in the science and practice of conservation for nearly 40 years, having worked on a variety of nature conservation projects across Africa, Asia and Europe. She is the Founder-Director of Mali Elephant Landscapes (MEL) which works with local partners – all parts of local communities and government – to make space for an iconic, desert-adapted elephant population in ways that provide local benefit and foster coexistence. She also worked as a research officer for the UK Government’s independent adviser on sustainable development at the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy & Understanding. She is a Research Associate of the Department of Biology, Oxford University, a Trustee of Tusk Trust, a Tusk Conservation Award Judge, a Board Member of the Sahara Conservation, an Advisor to Chengeta Wildlife, a member of the IUCN-SSC African Elephant Specialist Group, and the Human Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Group; and the World Commission on Protected Areas. She has co-authored a book on “Conservation” for Cambridge University Press.
Mali Elephant Project
Board Member & Director of Mali Elephant Landscapes
UK
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