Mantoa Moiloa

Mantoa has worked with the Lesotho Northern Parks for four years and currently serves as Park Manager at the Liphofung Cave cultural and historical site. She serves as an advisor to Community Conservation Forums (CCF) where she helps identify and approve restoration projects to improve the local infrastructure. Mantoa is active in many different activities in her community including working on ecotourism projects to help improve livelihoods, assisting with conservation awareness campaigns, partaking in law enforcement operations against illegal poachers in the parks, and working in alien plants removal and reintroducing indigenous plants operations. Mantoa has a Bachelor of Technology in Ecotourism Management from Tshwane University of Technology. Upon her return from the Washington Fellowship, she plans to dedicate her newly acquired skills in empowering local communities, especially women, in strengthening their ecotourism projects. She will also focus more on conservation awareness campaigns and environmental education.