Dr. Jim Justus Nyamu (AKA Elephant Man)

Please join us for a special meeting with our friend from Kenya Jim Nyamu.

You can also connect via Zoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84684272677

Jim Nyamu is the founder and Executive Director for Elephant Neighbors Center (ENC), a local NGO that focuses on enhancing the capacity of grassroot communities living with wildlife, to promote inter-linkages between policy makers and communities and raise awareness on species and habitat conservation.

Jim is a holder of a Post graduate Diploma on Dissertation: Environmental Management study, from Kenya Institute of Social Work and Community Development and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree on Natural Resource and Conservation Management from Mweka College of African Wildlife Management, Tanzania.

Nyamu's campaign is titled Ivory Belongs to Elephants and has dedicated his life to conservation of the African Elephant. Between 1998 to 2000 Nyamu worked as an Assistant Research scientist with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on projects based at Mt. Kenya, Shimba hills and Arabuko Sokoke. This was followed by a stint as an Elephant Research Scientist with African Conservation Centre (ACC). He worked as a Consultant with KWS and Mount Kenya East Pilot Project FAO for one-year, i.e., 2010.