Interviews

CLP is proud to have supported some of the leading lights in conservation and it is always a great pleasure to find out how their careers are progressing.

Past award winners often credit CLP with catalysing their successful careers. Many of them are now working full time in the conservation sector within national and international NGOs, universities, research organisations and private companies as biodiversity consultants. Several CLP alumni are now directing country-wide, regional and global programmes of work.

Connecting people, forests and birds in Brazil

Alice Reisfeld, April 2024

In 2014, early in her career, Alice Reisfeld joined a team of conservationists supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) working to protect an area of Brazilian Atlantic Forest famed...Read interview with Alice Reisfeld

Saving the ‘Samoan dodo’

Moeumu Uili, December 2023

Ten years ago, Moeumu "Moe" Uili won a CLP Future Conservationist Award to support her project on the 'little dodo' or tooth-billed pigeon, a Critically Endangered relative of the famously...Read interview with Moeumu Uili

An endless energy for conservation: Dolly Priatna

Dolly Priatna, January 2023

Dolly Priatna is a man of many talents. Whilst his more than 30 year career has seen him work in both academia, NGOs and private sector, his vision has stayed...Read interview with Dolly Priatna

Pursuing new paths to help heal nature in Brazil

Alberto Campos, August 2022

Three-time CLP award-winner, Alberto Campos, shares his insights from a 28-year career in conservation: from co-founding a national NGO and spearheading key conservation successes, to pursuing a PhD in an...Read interview with Alberto Campos

Staying in the fight for future conservationists

Caleb Ofori-Boateng, April 2022

Three-time CLP award-winner, Dr Caleb Ofori-Boateng, is the founder and Director of Herp Conservation-Ghana (Herp-Ghana), an NGO working to raise awareness and garner support for amphibian conservation. In this interview,...Read interview with Caleb Ofori-Boateng

Growing a seed of hope in Argentina

Erica Cuyckens, December 2021

After over a decade leading efforts to protect Argentina’s wild cats, Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) alumna, Dr Erica Cuyckens, Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET),...Read interview with Erica Cuyckens

A noble quest: Safeguarding the Critically Endangered Philippine cockatoo

Indira Lacerna-Widmann, September 2021

Conservation Careers writer Marie Conroy speaks to CLP alumna, Indira Lacerna-Widmann, about her heroic efforts to save the Philippine cockatoo from extinction. Known for their ability to mimic humans, the...Read interview with Indira Lacerna-Widmann

Rescuing reptiles and reaping the rewards

Allwin Jesudasan, April 2021

Allwin Jesudasan is the Director of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (MCBT/CFH) in India. He first joined the CLP alumni network a decade ago, and now...Read interview with Allwin Jesudasan

Steppes to success in Central Kazakhstan

Vera Voronova, November 2020

Vera Voronova is the CEO of the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK). Having started out as a student member of the ACBK board in 2009, she...Read interview with Vera Voronova

Going wild for the Andean cat

Mauro Lucherini, August 2020

Three-time CLP award-winner, Mauro Lucherini, is dedicated to studying and conserving wild carnivores. He is a council member of both the Andean Cat Alliance and Wild Felid Research & Management...Read interview with Mauro Lucherini