Andrew Stein
CLAWS Conservancy, 32 Pine Tree Drive, Worcester, MA 01609
Dr. Andrew Stein takes a holistic approach to community-based conservation incorporating wildlife research, community engagement and capacity building of indigenous people. Since 2001, he has studied lions, leopards, hyenas and African wild dogs outside of protected areas in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa where farmers kill predators in retaliation for livestock losses. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst for his dissertation on the Ecology and Conservation of Leopards on farmlands in Namibia. Dr. Stein is the Founder and Executive Director of CLAWS Conservancy, a nonprofit organization focused on human-lion coexistence in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. He has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts, conducted the national leopard survey in Namibia and led the IUCN Red List Assessment for leopards in 2016 and 2024. Andrew is a Fulbright Scholar, National Geographic Explorer, member of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group, African Lion Working Group, Kavango-Zambezi Carnivore Subworking Group.
