Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld is a woman with a passion for Africa.

She lives in Tanzania and is co-founder and executive director of the African People & Wildlife Fund and a research affiliate of Yale Universitys School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

She has over 15 years of experience in East Africa working with large carnivores, local communities and community-based conservation programs.

Dr. Lichtenfeld received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005 for her research combining wildlife ecology and social ecology in an interdisciplinary study of human-lion relationships, interactions and conflicts.

She is a National Geographic Explorer, a member of the African Lion Working Group, the Yale Large Carnivore Group, the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative and the recipient of the Fulbright Award.

Her work has been featured on National Geographic Wild and the Discovery Channel Canada.

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