CSF Attends the International Congress on Threats and Strategies for Protection and Sustainable Development in Amazonian Borders

International Congress on Threats and Strategies for Protection and Sustainable Development in Amazonian Borders

Around 17 percent of the Amazon Rainforest has been destroyed in the last 50 years due to deforestation, jeopardizing important global ecosystem services and threatening indigenous treaties and claims to land.

Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya

Mr. Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya is the Chief Executive Officer of African Wildlife Foundation (AWF). He has over 25 years’ experience in conservation at grassroots, national and regional levels in the USA, Africa, and Europe, and is now responsible for driving AWF’s long term-strategy.

Kaddu has worked with Oxfam UK, the World Conservation Union - IUCN, USA Peace Corps, Conservation International, and Solimar International.

Urban Lehner

Urban Lehner worked for The Wall Street Journal for 33 years, 20 of them overseas, including tours as Washington economics reporter, Tokyo bureau chief, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels and editor and publisher of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong. He worked for DTN/The Progressive Farmer in Omaha for nine years as editor-in-chief and vice president/editorial, retiring in 2012. He blogs for DTN under the rubric "An Urban's Rural View."