Improving Our Collective Efforts to Prevent and Mitigate Human-Wildlife Conflict

Acknowledgements

HWCC is grateful for the many contributions of its member organizations and especially the on-going support, hard work and dedication of its Steering Committee.

Special thanks goes to:

Brian McQuinn, currently of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and formerly of The Carter Center and Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CCRC), for his generous, not to mention brilliant, contribution of expertise, skills and time to HWCC's Conservation and Conflict Trainings.

The Wildlife Society for acting as a fiscal and legal host for HWCC, and especially Michael Hutchins whose enthusiastic invitation to host HWCC made it all possible and to Jane Pelkey for her much appreciated financial and administrative talents.

Defenders of Wildlife for hosting HWCC's large meetings and trainings and providing logistical support during the events and especially to Nina Fascione, for always making the work seem like play.

The Humane Society of the United States, and especially John Hadidian, for going that extra mile to ensure HWCC has the support it needs.

Chester Zoo for hosting HWCC's website.

Sheila Ferguson for her creative website design, tireless dedication and continuous web support.

IUCN - Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities and Equity in Protected Areas (TILCEPA) for providing the support to host the initial workshop at the 2003 World Parks Congress that launched the HWCC concept. And to Ashish Kothari (IUCN-TILCEPA), Rodney Jackson (Snow Leopard Conservancy), Michael Manfredo (Colorado State University), Laurie Marker (Cheetah Conservation Fund), Peter Crawshaw (IBAMA - Brazil), Mordecai Ogada (Kenya Wildlife Trust) and Kate Hill (Oxford-Brookes University) for their part in HWCC's conception and their continuous support and energy since that day.

Julie Stein of Scentmark, Charles Brown of USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, Rebecca Rose of Columbus Zoo, and Kirsten Leong of the U.S. National Park Service for their inspiration, ideas, creativity and support.

Megan Draheim, HWCC Research Fellow, for her critical work in leading the training needs assessment.

Photo Credits

The following images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 or 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

The following images are licensed under the Stock Xchng image license. Standard restrictions apply and the photographer must be notified and credited when using the photo for any public work.

The following images are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

The following are public domain images from the US Government.

HwCC Member and Others Photos - Images are copyrighted and are owned by the listed person.

Site Map     |     Contact Us     |     Acknowledgements