Rare Alumni Network Accelerating Local Conservation Success in Lao

lao 2

Ever wonder what happens to a Pride campaign manager after they complete their two-year conservation campaigns?

95%  percent of Pride campaign manager alumni surveyed report that they are still involved in conservation – many of whom continue their Pride campaigns, start new ones and/or mentor other Pride campaign managers. Such is the case in Lao, where Rare alumnus Soulisak “Sak” Vannalath mentors current campaign manager Santi “Joy” Saypanya in a Rare Pride campaign with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Lao (WCS-Lao) Program to reduce the poaching of tiger prey in the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area. In the photo, Sak, Joy and Troy Hansel, Deputy Director for the WCS-Lao office recently met up to discuss Joy’s final drafted campaign slogan and messaging. Sak shared insights from his own experience running a 2007 Pride campaign focused on illegal hunting of bushmeat and habitat loss.

It was in fact Sak’s training of other WCS-Lao staff and partners in the Pride methodology during his own Pride campaign that contributed to WCS-Lao applying for a second Pride campaign, which would then be managed by Joy. The team at WCS-Lao is a great example of the Rare Alumni Network in action.

Related posts:

  1. Launching the Latin America Pride Alumni Network [photopress:alumni2_1_2_3_4.jpg,full,left] After nearly canceling the event several weeks earlier due...
  2. Firing up the network! Interview with “Papa Pride”, getting down to business…and an Alumni congo line?, Yesterday’s work at the Inaugural Rare Pride Latin America gathering...
  3. Rare CEO Brett Jenks: Video blog from Rare Latin America Alumni gathering July 13, 2009 [photopress:group_cropped_btr.png,thumb,pp_image] Feel the excitement! What a treat!...
  4. Celebrating 8 Years of Conservation Training Success Rare’s Senior Vice President of Global Programs, Paul Butler, blogs...
  5. A Rare Visit to Fiji: Local Conservation in the South Pacific Dale Galvin, Rare’s Chief Operating Officer, blogs about his trip...

  • April Njari

    What a fabulous ripple effect caused by connecting and empowering campaign managers!