Mr. Stefan Austermuhle
Executive Director, Mundo Azul
Conservation Non-governmental organization
Peru
will be addressing the
Vancouver Institute on
March 28, 2015 at
8:15 p.m.,
Lecture Hall No. 2 in the
Woodward Instructional Resources Centre,
University of British Columbia.
Speaker photos still to come
Mr. Austermühle is the Executive Director of the Peruvian conservation NGO Mundo Azul as well as the new Peruvian NGP, INECI (Interamerican Institute for Integral Ecology). He has had 29 years of experience in leadership positions in environmental and marine conservation and research in both Germany and Peru. He is also General Manager of the Peruvian marine ecotourism operator, Nature Expeditions, with 11 years of experience in tourism. He is a leading marine conservationist who has exposed the extent of the illegal dolphin hunt in Peru where thousands of dolphins are killed each year and sold illegally or used as shark bait.