Camoya Evans interviews Dr Jessica Bell Rizzolo, an interdisciplinary researcher who focuses on wildlife tourism, wildlife trade (legal and illegal), and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with an emphasis on sustainable substitutes. Transitioning from activism to research, Dr Rizzolo highlights the agency and social lives of animals and advocates for their recognition as community members. She critiques conventional conservation, proposing restorative, community-led approach

Camoya Evans continues interviewing Eli Abaho, Executive Director of Nect Green Code (NGC), an organisation promoting environmental health and climate justice in Uganda.

This September 2025, Wild We Stand came into being not because we had a clear stance, but because something felt missing in the conversations around conservation. The focus tends to be on the treetop of conservation, the big and important results of reintroductions and policy change, but what about the quiet roots, the community, the front-line workers, the foundation of it all? We kept noticing the same patterns, the same voices centred, the same narratives repeated, and we