Mr.
Aljoscha
Wothke
Alexei
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Environmental Research Institute Charlotteville, Tobago
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Director, CEO
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As a senior expert with broad experience in Caribbean SIDS, his main technical expertise is facilitating innovative stakeholder collaborations regarding sustainable green and blue economy, responsible tourism, protected area management, environmental resource management, marine and terrestrial conservation, and CSO governance and capacity building. He is a founding Director of North East Tobago’s most outstanding ENGO and has been project lead in award-winning interventions.
Aljoscha served as team leader for a 3-year, EU-funded (3.5m €), community based eco-agro tourism project in Saint Lucia and for drafting the technical documents for NE Tobago’s successful nomination as a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve. He was the chief editor for drafting the dossiers to list Tobago’s Main Ridge Forest Reserve and North-East Tobago’s Islets and Reefs as Natural National Heritage Sites. In 2021/22 Aljoscha undertook a Situational analysis of Union Islands tourism sector and designed a regenerative tourism strategy for Union Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (FFI).
Currently, he is the technical lead in preparing the 10-year management plan for N.E. Tobago`s UNESCO MaB Biosphere Reserve (UNDP/UNEP), and contracted as project manager and technical expert for governance and institutional strengthening of the N.E. Tobago Protected Area Management Trust (IDB).
In 2021, Mr Wothke received the National Environmental Achiever Green Leaf Acknowledgement by the Environmental Management Authority, Trinidad & Tobago and was appointed as a Member of the National Council for Sustainable Development of Trinidad and Tobago by the Minister of Planning and Development.
Aljoscha served as team leader for a 3-year, EU-funded (3.5m €), community based eco-agro tourism project in Saint Lucia and for drafting the technical documents for NE Tobago’s successful nomination as a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve. He was the chief editor for drafting the dossiers to list Tobago’s Main Ridge Forest Reserve and North-East Tobago’s Islets and Reefs as Natural National Heritage Sites. In 2021/22 Aljoscha undertook a Situational analysis of Union Islands tourism sector and designed a regenerative tourism strategy for Union Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (FFI).
Currently, he is the technical lead in preparing the 10-year management plan for N.E. Tobago`s UNESCO MaB Biosphere Reserve (UNDP/UNEP), and contracted as project manager and technical expert for governance and institutional strengthening of the N.E. Tobago Protected Area Management Trust (IDB).
In 2021, Mr Wothke received the National Environmental Achiever Green Leaf Acknowledgement by the Environmental Management Authority, Trinidad & Tobago and was appointed as a Member of the National Council for Sustainable Development of Trinidad and Tobago by the Minister of Planning and Development.
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