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2024 Steering Committee
The GYBN Steering Committee comprises youth leaders and champions for biodiversity from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Europe. With vast experience and years of dedicated work in GYBN, they strive to amplify youth voices in global biodiversity conservation and decision-making processes.
Prisca Daka
Country: Zimbabwe
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SC for Africa
Prisca Daka comes from Zimbabwe and she holds a master’s degree (LLM) in Animal Law from Lewis and Clark Law School (USA). She was blessed enough to explore wildlife with her family from a young age. She learned and appreciated how the outdoors can help people create connections with others and with nature. Following the first GYBN Africa capacity-building workshop in 2017, she founded a new GYBN chapter, the Zimbabwe Youth Biodiversity Network, to establish a local platform that advocates for youth participation in biodiversity issues at all levels. She aims to use her legal background to use the power of the law, advocacy, and lobbying to protect animals and biodiversity in general.
Kevin Lunzalu
Country: Kenya
SC for Africa
Kevin Lunzalu is a wildlife biologist from Kenya with passionate interest in youth, human rights, and conservation issues. Through his work, Kevin strives to strike a balance between science and humanity, and strongly believes that communities should be at the center of the conservation agenda. Kevin is currently the country coordinator of the Kenyan Chapter of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, a platform through which he actively engages young people at the grassroots level about innovative and sustainable solutions aimed at halting the biodiversity loss currently occurring around the globe. Kevin has written conservation articles for other platforms, mostly detailing the state of environmental stewardship in Africa, and linking it with economics, politics, agriculture, gender, human rights, and youth empowerment.
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Mars-Ares Rabindranath Von. Kurkovitch
Country: Benin
SC for Africa
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Eshadi Mendis
Country: Sri Lanka
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SC for Asia
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Kitikun Saksung (Bright)
Country: Thailand
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SC for Asia
Axel Eriksson
Country: Sweden
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SC for Europe
Abu Bakar Ali
Country: Denmark
SC for Europe
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Alán Valdés
Country: Mexico​
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SC for LAC
Alan is an expert with over 5 years of experience in environmental diplomacy, focusing on biodiversity and human rights, particularly the rights of access. His work spans science communication and environmental policy. Alan has played key roles in the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), currently serving as the co-coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean and a member of the GYBN Steering Committee. He has also led initiatives to build youth capacities and ensure meaningful participation in biodiversity governance. Additionally, he coordinates EcoMaxei, where he advocates for environmental democracy, with a special focus on women's and youth's rights.
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Érisson de Sousa Marques
Country: Brazil
SC for LAC
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