African parks leads on staff growth amid plans to localise ops

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African Parks has outpaced peers with a 9% increase in senior staff growth, a total of 50 new hires over the past year. Our review, using LinkedIn data, indicates that African Parks has achieved the highest growth rate in both general hirers and business development staff at 9% and 8% respectively. African Parks also appears to be localising staffing increasingly. 

• Drawing on an annual budget of $166 million, AP is opening an academy in Rwanda to train African conservation professionals, with the first students expected to enroll next year. 

• Wildlife Conservation Society, Peace Parks Foundation and The Nature Conservancy also recorded high general staff growth among all the top 10 conservation organisations in Africa with 35, 18 and 18 new hires respectively.