Agripa Ngorima
Research Associate

Griffith University, Environmental Futures Research Institute

Agripa Ngorima is passionate about natural resources conservation and improving livelihoods of local people. His main interests are socio-ecological systems and how natural resources can be extracted sustainably. With more emphasis, he is interested in the engagement of local communities to curb illegal wildlife trade. Currently he is working with Dr. Duan Biggs as an associate collaborator on the benefits African elephants provides to local communities as a way of increasing incentives for stewardship. Having grown up in rural Zimbabwe, he understood the nexus between natural resources and local communities from an early age. He observed the pride and contentment which local communities had in the management of natural resources. The passion he had for natural resources made him study Forest Resources and Wildlife Management at National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. He further went on to study MSc in Environmental Science at Rhodes University in South Africa, with emphasis on sustainable use of natural resources for improving livelihood resilience of local communities in the Eastern Cape.