Aidan Gallagher interview with John E. Scanlon

Aidan Gallagher interview with John E. Scanlon John E. Scanlon is an Australian attorney who has worked with Australian and international environmental organizations. Scanlon has worked on environment and sustainable development issues at the international, national, and local level with government, private sector, international organisations and the United Nations. He is Special Envoy for African Parks. African Parks currently manages fifteen protected areas and national parks in Africa, spanning 10.5 million hectares and seven of the 11 distinct ecoregions, the largest amount of land under conservation management for any one non-governmental entity on the continent. African Parks is a NGO (Non Governmental Organization) a non-profit dedicating to conservation of land for wildlife.  Prince Harry is the president of African Parks. Scanlon was Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora from 2010-2018. Before joining CITES he was Principal Adviser on Policy and Programme, and Team Leader of the Strategic Implementation Team, at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Director of the Environmental Law Centre and Head of the Environmental Law Programme with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs in South Australia.