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Protecting the world's northernmost jaguars…
The Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders of Team Jaguar
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Heather Wieczorek Hudenko
Heather received her B.S. from the University of Michigan in Resource Ecology and Management, and her background includes work in behavioral ecology and environmental education. As a graduate student at Cornell University, she studies human-carnivore interactions in suburban landscapes. Her focus is on fostering coexistence between people and predator species to promote conservation initiatives.
Brendan F. Tate
Brendan has a degree in Political Science from Universtiy of Wisconsin, and joined the World Wildlife Fund in 2004 as the Senior Administrative Assistant for Government Relations. He was promoted to Legislative Associate in 2006, and works with Congress to shape conservation-related legislation and appropriations issues.
Christa Kugler
Christa is earning her Master's degree in Conservation Biology at Columbia University. She has a deep interest in feline ecology and international, interdisciplinary problem-solving. She brings to the Northern Jaguar Project many years of captive husbandry and field work, most recently from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Melissa Krenke
Melissa has a B.S. in Conservation Biology from University of Wisconsin, and has worked for the Rainforest Alliance's Neotropics Communications Program since 2002. She manages the Eco-Index, a bilingual database of over 900 conservation projects, and is a member of the Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative.
Matti Nghikembua
Matti lives and works from Namibia where he is a Senior Research Assistant with the Cheetah Conservation Fund. He is heavily involved in its educational programs, and conducts research on native game, vegetation, and cheetah, while also attending graduate school. He is very happy now to work through EWCL for another great cat.
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