Yannick Ndoinyo

Yannick Ndoinyo, Tanzania

Executive Director at Traditional Ecosystems Survival Tanzania

Yannick
Ndoinyo is a conservationist and community development specialist with
over 20 years of experience working in Tanzania. He is the founder and
executive director of Traditional Ecosystems Survival Tanzania (TEST),
an organization that focuses on promoting the rights and livelihoods of
Indigenous Peoples in Tanzania.

Yannick
has published several works, including a chapter on human rights
violations in the name of conservation in the book Environmental
Defenders, and an assessment of human-elephant conflict in the Western
Serengeti. He is an honorary member of the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and serves as the deputy chair for the
Human Wellbeing and Sustainable Livelihoods (HWSL) theme of the IUCN
Commission on Economic, Environmental, and Social Policy (CEESP).