Yuhan Li is a former Senior Project Officer at Shan Shui Conservation Center, where she worked on community-based conservation initiatives in China’s high-altitude ecosystems. Her PhD at the University of Oxford examines the effectiveness and global impacts of conservation initiatives on biodiversity and local communities in the Three-River-Source National Park, China’s first and largest national park. By combining policy analysis, impact evaluation, and community perspectives, she seeks to better understand how conservation interventions such as ranger employment, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and community-based ecotourism affect snow leopards and the livelihoods of local nomadic herding communities. In the future, she plans to design community-centered, evidence-based conservation policies and programs in China and to share the lessons learned with other regions.
She was nominated by Lishu Li, China Counter Wildlife Trafficking Director and Temperate Asia Regional Coordinator at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Awarded the WCN Standard Scholarship.
Location: China
School: Oxford University