The Team
At Carbon Tanzania we have constructed a team of experts, please feel free to contact us with any questions and queries.
Core Team
Marc Baker - Coordinator
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Marc Baker is a director of Ecological Initiatives based in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. He has worked in various capacities in conservation and ecotourism since 1998, including consulting for the UNDP-GEF cross border biodiversity project from 1998 to 2000 where he conducted a range of biodiversity surveys in Tanzania and Kenya. Marc has also worked as a consultant for Danida, Care International, and the Wildlife Division of Tanzania on biodiversity assessments, wildlife management, and tourism development. He founded Carbon Tanzania in 2007 with the specific aim of driving in-country value-added carbon offsets directly to communities, to ensure both biodiversity protection and a community-based understanding of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Jo Anderson - Finance and Sales
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Jo Anderson is a director of Ecological Initiatives Ltd., a Tanzanian company based in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. His work has ranged from wildlife surveys in remote areas to assessments of tourism resources in potential development sites. He has worked in the forestry, environment, and tourism industries for 16 years in Tanzania, and has built a network of professional contacts, both in the government and non-governmental sectors. He works in policy development with the relevant Ministries and non-governmental organisations, writing briefing papers and editing technical documents.
Japhet Sabaya – Field Liaison
Japhet Sabaya is based in Kisongo, Arusha. He organizes Carbon Tanzania's field operations and provides technical input to the above ground biomass surveys. As a Maasai and a botanist, Japhet plays a key role in community meetings and trainings on community-based monitoring.
Technical Advisors
Fred Nelson – Technical Advisor on Community Operations
Fred Nelson provides technical support to Carbon Tanzania through his position as Executive Director of Maliasili Initiatives. Maliasili Initiatives was established as a US-based non-profit organization in 2011 to work with leading local natural resource conservation and development organizations in Africa to build their capacity and ability to deliver on their missions and develop leading models of community-based conservation. Fred has worked on community-based natural resource management, payments for ecosystem services, tourism, and rural development issues in Tanzania and the wider eastern and southern African region since 1998, being based in Tanzania for 11 years. He was the Tanzania program director of the Sand County Foundation Community Based Conservation Network for five years and helped establish the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.
Peter Pascal Maziku - Consultant Botanist
Peter Pacal studied botany at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in 1999 and then spent two years mapping plant taxonomy in the Tarangire ecosystem as part of a team working with the National Herbarium and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This experience gave Peter the chance to learn the importance of accurate data gathering as a tool for conservation management. The final output of this work was a botanical guidebook to Tarangire National Park.
Peter has worked for the African Wildlife Foundation in the Burunge Wildlife Management Area, carrying out resource planning and vegetation surveys as well as creating a tool for biodiversity monitoring. Peter has also mapped the vegetation of the Yeada Valley area using AFRICOVER satellite imagery.
In all of his consultancy work, Peter has shown the importance of combining academic field work whilst engaging with remote communities in a sensitive manner. Peter has been leading the Carbon Tanzania team in conducting the vegetation sampling for above ground biomass (AGB) using Winrock methodologies.
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