Tomoaki Nishihara (Seisa University) completed his PhD on primate ecology in the Congo at the Laboratory of Human Evolution Studies at Kyoto University, Japan before beginning a long-term field conservation career in Central Africa. He has been in the field 20 years, including 10 years with WCS Congo and Gabon plus working on the famous Megatransect. He has strong skills in logistics and team organization and speaks several languages. He has worked as a project manager / technical advisor, for the management of National Parks. His current interests are to not only protect the Central African forest ecosystem but to also create links between conservation activities in the field and conservation in Japan. He also wants to improve public awareness in Japan of forest elephant conservation and prevent the trafficking of ivory to Japan and Asia. His most important publication is "Elephant poaching and ivory trafficking in African tropical forests with special reference to the Republic of Congo", Pachyderm, 34:66-74 (2003).  This hybrid lecture will take place in-person in 211 David Lawrence Hall.  To attend this lecture via Zoom, please register here.