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Abdul Hussain Shohib
Security Guard
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Abdul Malik Twakulzada
Security Guard
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Abdul Wali
Security Guard
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Ali Madad Rajabi
WCS Veterinarian
Ali Madad is a qualified veterinarian who graduated from the University of Kabul in 2005. Since 2006, he has been working with WCS Afghanistan across the country on global health issues, ranging from disease risk and wildlife trade to water bird monitoring and avian influenza. Ali’s main field of expertise is disease risk at the livestock/wildlife interface and zoonotic diseases in the Wakhan and Pamirs. He has also received additional training in conservation medicine, wildlife tranquilization, principles of ecosystem health and avian influenza epidemiology. In 2008, Ali participated in the avian influenza water bird monitoring campaign with WCS in Mongolia. He is particularly interested by birdlife and was part of the WCS team who discovered the large-billed reed warbler in Wakhan in 2009.
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Anthony Simms
Badakhshan Technical Advisor
Anthony is Australian, growing up in Sydney, New South Wales. He started his career as a ranger in the Northern Territory of Australia, working in various locations from 1994 to 2002. In latter 2002 he moved to Cambodia and for the next 5 years worked on a protected area project in the Cardamom Mountains. He joined the WCS-Afghanistan team in February 2008 and works as Technical Advisor to the Badakhshan Project.
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Christopher Shank
Hazarajat Project Manager
Chris Shank has been working with WCS on the Hazarajat program since 2006 concentrating on development of Band-e-Amir National Park and the Ajar Valley Wildlife Reserve in central Afghanistan. Chris did his doctorate on bighorn sheep and spent much of his career as a wildlife biologist for the governments of the Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. While working for FAO in the mid-1970s, he developed preliminary plans for parks and wildlife reserves in Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan in 2002 to undertake a post-conflict environmental assessment for UNEP. Continuing his work with UNEP, Chris has also assisted Afghanistan with its reporting to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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Dad Ali Faqiree
Field Support Officer
Dad Ali Faqiri was born in Kabul Afghanistan in 19th March 1977. Dad Ali studied school up to 12 grades in Nadirya high school of Kabul In 1998 he immigrated to Pakistan but returned back to Afghanistan in 1999. He worked as a shopkeeper and studied English language courses in Kabul city in par time bases. From 2002, he worked with Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF) international as Security guard and House manager up to 2006. In 2006 he joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as a field Support officer and Finance field Assistant. He enjoys his work with WCS and is happily married with his four children.
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David Bradfield
Band-e Amir and Ranger Training Technical Advisor
David Bradfield (40 years old) was born and raised on a sheep farm in the Stormberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. He spent most of his childhood with the African Xhosa tribe and learnt to speak the ‘clicking’ language fluently. Hunting and fishing in the mountains, and spending as much time in the field was the norm with any young country lad of that age and therewith grew his love of horses, wildlife and wild places. He was educated at Queens College and following conscription in the South African Army David started his conservation career as a horseback safari guide in the northern part of South Africa. David worked as a section ranger for the Parks Board and specialized in black and white rhino monitoring and protection. Together with his wife Andrea he spent 4 years in Malawi’s Liwonde National park in east Africa as project manager for the Frankfurt Zoological Society. In 2005 they moved to Cambodia where he took up the post as Programme Manager for the Cardamom Mountains Wildlife Sanctuaries project in Western Cambodia. David joined the WCS team in Afghanistan in October 2008 and is presently the Technical Advisor for the Bamyan conservation Project, Afghanistan’s first and only National Park, Band-e-Amir. He is married to Andrea who hails from Wales and they have one son Tarquin who is 4. Their home base is in Mossel Bay, South Africa.
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Faizuddin Akbari
House Staff
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Farooq Soree
Stock Controller
Farooq was born in 1969 in Herat province, western Afghanistan. He began his primary education in Herat however moved with his family to Kabul to complete his studies in the 80s. After graduating from the military university, Farooq joined the army as a captain. He also served as a teacher in the Ministry of Education, however moved to Russia during the Taliban regime. Following the Taliban’s removal from power in 2001, Farooq returned to Afghanistan with his family and joined the Community Housing Foundation. Since June 2006, Farooq has worked for WCS within different positions including as a security guard, field coordinator and now inventory officer. He is married and lives with his wife and four children in Kabul.
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