Dr. Robert H. Horwich received his Ph.D. in zoology 1967 from the University of Maryland and worked in a postdoctoral position in India with the Smithsonian Institution. Based on over 20 years of research on infant development, he developed a successful method for reintroducing endangered cranes into the wild used internationally on a number of species. He has studied primate behavior in India and Central America since 1967 and pioneered a reintroduction effort for endangered black howler monkeys. In 1984 he began work with community sanctuaries and established the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize. He is the founder of Community Conservation Inc./Howlers Forever, Inc. Email: 
Scott Bernstein has a BS from the University of Illinois in Accounting/MIS, and recently completed his Masters degree in Land Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His thesis research was on community co-management capacity in Belize, and studied three community-based projects. (
April Sansom is currently working on a PhD in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She completed her Master's degree in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development in October of 2003. The action research she conducted for this degree focused on the role of women in natural resources management decision-making in two small rural communities in Bolivia . Her doctoral work will take her to Ecuador and Mexico as well as Bolivia . April served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines from 1996-1998, and worked for the Philippines program of Conservation International for a year after that. She worked with an indigenous group of people on Coron Island that had just received legal rights over their ancestral land and water. She coordinated a conservation enterprise project, which focused on the processing of cashews by the local community people. Email:
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Anthony Stocks is an anthropologist at Idaho State University who provides technical assistance to indigenous groups in Central and South America for land claims and conservation planning. He employs a full range of GIS and social science techniques and works with participatory methods. With over 30 years of experience with indigenous people and conservationists, he is also available for consultation by organizations who are involved in, or contemplating, conservation projects that interact with indigenous people anywhere. He can be reached at astocks@isu.edu.
The following people attended a workshop on catalyzing successful community-based conservation projects at the 2006 SCB Annual Conference, San Jose, CA
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