For this podcast, we have Mr. Rinzin Phunjok Lama( wildlife biologist and conservationist,Winner of Rolex Awards for Enterprise  2021, WWF Nepal Conservation Award in 2020)as resource person.

About the resource person:  Mr. Rinzin Phunjok Lama.

Rinzin Phunjok Lama, a native of Nepal's Nyinba Community in the Humla District, comes from one of the world's wildest and most remote areas, and has long advocated for local community engagement in biodiversity protection and sustainability. His vision is to strengthen community-based conservation by focusing on capacity building of community institutions, promotion of local citizen scientists, social enterprise development for livelihood diversification, and promoting good governance to build more pliable and self-reliant communities as the first graduate in the field of nature conservation from Humla. His research interests include high-altitude wildlife and ecology, human-animal conflict, human footprints and landscape change, climate change, citizen science, and indigenous resource management systems.