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Since 2003, Margje Voeten is programme manager conservation and welfare for Alertis, fund for bear and nature conservation based in Rhenen, the Netherlands. She is initiating and coordinating different bear conservation projects, mostly in Eastern Europe. During her assignment as programme-coordinator for the FIN (Federation International Nature Conservation) from 2006 to 2008, she started and coordinated a conservation project for Swayne's Hartebeest in Ethiopia. She graduated from Utrecht University in 1991 with ethology as a major. She also spent one year as an exchange student in Florida researching the feeding ecology of the Florida Woodrat. She started a PhD at Wageningen University in 1993 and executed fieldwork Tanzania for three years, researching the competition for food between wildlife (zebra and wildebeest) and livestock (cattle). Before going to work for Alertis, she worked as a teacher and researcher for the landscape ecology group of Utrecht University. Currently, she is a board member of the van Tienhoven Foundation for International Nature Conservation and a member of the IUCN-NL advisory committee.


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