Laly Lichtenfeld, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, African People and Wildlife

Registration : https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/L9J9CUyzRC2_mkg-6DTuhA

Holding Ground: Conservation, Community, and the Long View

For more than two decades, Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld has partnered with communities in Tanzania to build conservation solutions that hold — through shifting politics, funding disruptions, and the daily pressures of life in landscapes where people and wildlife rely on the same land. Her work centers on a question that rarely gets asked in environmental science: not whether a solution was implemented, but whether it lasts. In this talk, she draws on field experience to explore what sustainable solutions require in practice, including local decision-making, women’s leadership, and the collaborative processes that keep conservation grounded when conditions change. The lessons reach well beyond conservation, offering a framework for anyone working on complex social and environmental challenges in an uncertain world.