AWEI Research Associate & PhD Candidate
Bio
Yolanda is a biodiversity conservation researcher, passionate about inclusive conservation and integrating local communities into wildlife management decisions. She believes that long-term conservation success depends on a meaningful engagement and co-production of solutions with the people who lives alongside protected areas. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and a MPhil in Biodiversity Conservation from Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. She is also a student researcher on the Morally Contested Conservation Project at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford. Yolanda's PhD research explores how wildlife economies can be leveraged to mitigate human-wildlife conflict within complex social-ecological systems.