Arne Jensen

Natural Resource Management Specialist

Mr. Jensen has more than 25 years experience working with conservation, local rural development and environmental issues. He has special expertise in the planning of protected areas systems and critical conservation areas at both local and national levels. His key qualifications comprise participatory planning processes, monitoring, local use of wetlands and marine resources, capacity building and environmental education and awareness.

He has broad experience with international environmental technical assistance, donor project management, formulation of natural resource management policies and guidelines necessary for establishment and management of protected areas and critical conservation areas including decentralized, local resource management (community resource use planning and indigenous peoples ancestral domain management).

Arne Jensen has worked extensively with natural resource inventories, identification of integrated protected areas systems, project reviews, and as team-leader for interdisciplinary teams and as project director with responsibility for technical staff supervision, quality assurance, backstopping and contract and grant finance administration.

Specialization: Participatory natural resource management and conservation (incl. establishment of locally managed natural resource use monitoring system, capacity-building of management boards and protected areas staff in implementing management strategies and policies, local use of terrestrial lands and wetlands) in South-East Asia. Public information and awareness campaigns. Facilitation of international and regional environmental collaboration among donors, governments, academe and NGOs. Global and regional biodiversity conservation priority setting. Indigenous peoples right’s issues.