Ivonne Higuero and Randy Kramer at the CITES Nairobi Workshop

Randy Kramer presented a talk, “Mobilizing Sustainable Finance for African Elephant Conservation,” at a workshop organized by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Nairobi, Kenya, last month. NSOE alumna Ivonne Higuero (MEM ’92), who is Secretary General of CITES, chaired the workshop. Randy’s talk summarized key findings of a report he prepared to help inform discussions on conservation finance at the 2022 CITES Conference of the Parties being held this week and next in Panama.