team

Kate Moore

Managing Director

Former Director, Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, and Country Director for the International Conservation Caucus Foundation, Malawi. 15 years experience of habitat conservation, wildlife rescue/ rehabilitation, and wildlife crime justice programmes.

Dr Rob Atkinson

Chief Scientific Advisor

Former CEO, Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; Head of Wildlife, RSPCA; Head of Animal Department, Woburn Safari Park. Inspector for the European Alliance of Rescue Centres & Sanctuaries.

Emma Cruickshank

Development Manager

Emma has worked in marketing and business development for over 15 years. Former Director of Business Development at the brain injury charity Headway. She is passionate about wildlife and nature.

Vasco Soeiro

Interim Site Manager

Twenty years’ experience in farm management, operations, and tourism with a degree in Agronomical Engineering.

Miguel Repas

Environment/licensing lead

CEO Strix Environment Agency, Guest professor at University of St Joseph in Lisbon, Board member for the International Association for Impact Assessment, and Country Representative for the International Energy Agency.

Antonio Duarte

Finance & procurement lead

30 years’ experience in banking and auditing. Former director of Novo Banco, Portugal and General Manager of BES, Cape Verde.

team

Ruth Ganesh

Chair, Development Board

Environmentalist specialising in conception and delivery of large-scale outdoor art exhibitions, through which she has raised over $20m for wildlife corridors, human-wildlife coexistence projects, and ecosystem restoration. Co-founder of Elephant Family USA and Platform Earth.