Lesley McNutt
Lesley McNutt is originally from Ontario, Canada with a Masters in Development Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal. In 1993 she began doing research for a natural resource management company in Botswana where she met Tico, and she applied her research focus oward human-wildlife conflict, and the relationships between protected areas and the adjacent lands, and to establish human solutions for the preservation of Africa’s large predators and their habitats. As the Director of Social Programs for BPCT, and in 2002, she spearheaded Coaching for Conservation (C4C), BPCT’s major social development program aimed at getting kids interested and involved in conservation through organized sport. C4C’s core values “Respect Yourself, Respect each Other, and Respect your Environment” aim to help the youth of Botswana build self-esteem, engage in constructive social exchange and develop an awareness and sensitivity to the environment they live and play in. www.bpctrust.org
