Nikita Dhawan, Founder, Youth for Animals converses with Alana Reynolds, currently a student of environmental law at Stanford University, about her past research on effective methods to mitigate human-elephant conflict e.g. chili and bee fences. Alana also talks about challenges and opportunities in the field of environmental law.
Alana Reynolds is a current joint-degree student at Stanford Law and Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences dedicated to the pursuit of environmental law, research and reform, with academic and professional experience in ecological research and environmental litigation. Alana earned her B.A. in Ecological & Evolutionary Biology and and a certificate in Environmental Studies from Princeton University. In 2017 Alana traveled to Mozambique with support from the Becky Colvin Memorial Award to conduct fieldwork on the effectiveness of various types of fences that subsistence farmers on the border of Gorongosa National Park could use to protect their crops from elephants.
