Kevin Lunzalu

Kevin Lunzalu is a young conservation leader from Kenya. He is passionate about working with young people to address disproportionate environmental challenges, enhance youth inclusion in policy spaces, research, and storytelling. His work mostly entails youth-led environmental conservation, landscape and nature restoration, marine protection, climate-smart farming systems, environmental policy, and environmental journalism.

Kevin is currently a teaching mentor of Advanced topics in Wildlife Conservation at Oxford Brookes University. He is also working with Climate Tracker to document climate change and sustainable diet stories in Kenya, and a youth researcher with Restless Development.

Kevin co-founded the Kenyan Youth Biodiversity Network in 2017, a youth-led organization that actively engages young people at the grass-root level on innovative and sustainable action programs aimed at halting the current unprecedented biodiversity loss and reverse the impact of the climate crisis. The 2016 young environmentalist of the year is also a UNEP Young Champions of the Earth judge(2019 and 2020); a finalist for Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Award 2020, Youth Agenda Top 35 under 35 Awards Nominee, global WIN WIN sustainability Award finalist, and DIAR Award 2020finalist for Youth Inclusion and Diversity.

Kevin’s mentor is Mir Kazim Ali.

Note: Kevin graduated from the mentoring programme in 2019 and he was 26 at the time.