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Guardians Worldwide

Our Team       
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Pietra Martin-Handfest

Youth engagement volunteer​​

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Pietra is a youth activist, founder and director of Coletivo Mangrovie, based in Italy.​​​

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Leonard Mindore

Board of Trustees​

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Leonard is an Ogiek community leader and land defender, director of PRO-HOME.

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Dr Nicolas Salazar Sutil

Executive Director 

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Nicolas is a Chilean and British environmentalist and changemaker, Guest Lecturer in Ethics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Dr Mercy Ette

Chair, Board of Trustees

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Mercy is a British and Nigerian scholar specialising in media, conflict and women's rights. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle.

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Dr Maria Rovisco

Board of Trustees 

 

Maria is a Portuguese social scientist based in the UK. She is Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Leeds 

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Lucimar Prata

Legal Officer​

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Lucimar is a human rights activist and lawyer. She is the cofounder of the law firm Prata & Lacerda Advogadas based in Manaus, Brazilian Amazon.

Debora Lacerda

Legal Officer​

 

​Deborah is a  lawyer and human rights defender based in Manaus, Brazil, and co-founder of the Prata & Lacerda firm.

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Cynthia Achieng

Legal Intern

 

Cynthia is a human rights lawyer from Kenya, and student at Syracuse College of Law, US.

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Mihaela Cojocaru
Kamilu Hassan Hamza

Director, GWW Africa

 

Kamilu is an oral historian of the Maguzawa people, educator and  entrepeneur, founder and director of GWW-Africa.

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Project Development and Fundraising

 

Mihaela is a fundraiser and researcher with roots in development studies, interested in rethinking systems. She is from the Moldova-Ukraine border, now based in Portugal.​

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Dr Joana Cruz

Associate Researcher (Education) 

 

Joana is an outdoor education specialist based at the University of Porto

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Tawana Kariri Xoco Fulkaxo

Director, Board of Trustees

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Tawana is a leader of the Fulkaxo people of Alagoas, and a driving force behind the Reserva Ecologica Fulkaxo forest restoration programme.

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Bob Jacques

Project Partner, Guardians UK

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Bob is a soil scientist, former Researcher at the University of Aberystwyth and Guardian of Pencoedtop, a 9 hectare site in Ceredigion, Wales

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Lee Walther

Director, Guardians UK​

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Lee is a Ranger for the National Trust, and guardian of Old Beard's Wood a 4-acre native woodland in West Sussex.

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Guardians Worldwide is an international non-profit organisation. We are registered as:

 

Associaçao Guardians Worldwide, Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)

GWW Africa Ltd, Nigeria (Reg No: 8272797)

Guardians UK (Charity Commission of England and Wales, Charity Number 1214169)​​​​

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​Guardians Worldwide

Reserva Florestal Portelas

Caminho das Portelas Predio 394

Penamacor

6080-901

Portugal

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Mission

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Guardians Worldwide is an international organisation. We are registered as:

 

Associaçao Guardians Worldwide, Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)

Guardians Africa Ltd, Nigeria (Reg: 8272797)

Guardians UK (Charity Commission of England and Wales, Charity Number 1214169)

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Email: info@guardiansworldwide.org

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​Guardians Worldwide

Reserva Florestal Portelas

Caminho das Portelas Predio 394

Penamacor

6080-901

Portugal

Mission

Guardians Worldwide is an international non-profit organisation. We are registered as:

 

Associaçao Guardians Worldwide, Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)

GWW Africa Ltd, Nigeria (Reg No: 8272797)

Guardians UK (Charity Commission of England and Wales, Charity Number 1214169)​​​​

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