Zara BendingZara Bending is an award-winning university lecturer and wildlife conservationist based in Sydney. She is a two-time Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award recipient, and the awardee of an AAUT national citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learing 'for inspiring the next generation of legal scholars, advocates, and changemakers through holistic mentorship and transformative learning design'. Her parallel career in the NGO sector includes over a decade's work for the Jane Goodall Institute as a Board Director, Roots & Shoots Leader, Global Advocacy Committee Member, and Resident Expert on Wildlife Crime and International Law. Dr Bending's expertise has been recognised in parliamentary inquiries and criminal prosecutions for wildlife trafficking, and by public service and judicial education bodies in Australia and abroad. Read More Read Less