Msafiri has spent 16 years working in wildlife conservation in Tanzania. He graduated with a BSC in Wildlife Management from Sokoine University of Agriculture and then Graduated Post Graduate Diploma In International Wildlife Practice, University of Oxford, UK. Since graduation, he has studied wildlife behavior and worked for Ruaha Carnivore Project (now Lion Landscapes) on carnivores’ population trends, ecology and human carnivore coexistence. In particular, he has worked with local people to address the challenges of human-carnivore conflict while improving local community livelihoods, through unique approaches that incentivize coexistence. Most recently he worked for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as an Ecologist for 10 years. His passion for raptors started 2011, when he discovered a poisoned sheep carcass (related to a carnivore predation) that had killed vultures. After this event, he became a champion for these birds writing about impacts of retaliatory killing from carnivores on non-targeted wildlife species such as vultures and other raptors. He started working more formally with vultures a few years later as part of WCS-North Carolina Zoo project on vulture monitoring in southern Tanzania. Here he was responsible for monitoring vulture population trends and movement across the Ruaha-Katavi Landscape program as the focal vulture biologist for WCS. He is currently working on vulture conservation in Tanzania with The Peregrine Fund.