Interns and Postgraduates
Interns and postgraduate students fall under our Programme Area “Young Namibian Training and Mentorship“.
Marina Tavolaro
Marina Tavolaro is a PhD student from the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa (iCWild) at University of Cape Town (SA). The community based natural resources management (CBNRM) system, which links conservation to poverty alleviation through sustainable use of natural resources, is a key development strategy for rural Namibia. The overall goal of Marina's research is to better understand and tackle conservation conflicts in Namibian communal conservancies. By better integrating the underpinning social context with the material impacts and evaluation of conflicts across communal conservancies, she hopes to enhance effective conflict management and long-term conservation benefits.
Marina holds a MSc by research from Bristol University (UK) and a BSc (Hons) in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen (UK). She recently worked for two years as a consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and previously worked as a researcher on the wildlife-livestock interface in southern Africa at Onderstepoort (University of Pretoria).
Marina Tavolaro
Marina Tavolaro is a PhD student from the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa (iCWild) at University of Cape Town (SA). The community based natural resources management (CBNRM) system, which links conservation to poverty alleviation through sustainable use of natural resources, is a key development strategy for rural Namibia. The overall goal of Marina's research is to better understand and tackle conservation conflicts in Namibian communal conservancies. By better integrating the underpinning social context with the material impacts and evaluation of conflicts across communal conservancies, she hopes to enhance effective conflict management and long-term conservation benefits.
Marina holds a MSc by research from Bristol University (UK) and a BSc (Hons) in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen (UK). She recently worked for two years as a consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and previously worked as a researcher on the wildlife-livestock interface in southern Africa at Onderstepoort (University of Pretoria).