Dr. Gabriel Mayengo has about twelve years of working experience in public service. He holds a Ph.D. in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystems Management. Currently, he serves as Research coordinator at the College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania, engaging in teaching and mentoring students, conducting research, and providing consultancy services to address conservation challenges. He is part of team coordinating different projects implemented by College within and outside Tanzania on issues related to conservation. Recently, he was engaged by Community Wildlife Management Areas Consortium (CWMAC) in developing training manual on ‘capacitating Rangers on handling wildlife crime scene and code of conduct’ in Ikona Wildlife Management Area. The manual is in the process of being improved and used to capacitate Rangers on handling wildlife crime scenes nationally. Additionally, he worked with the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to assess human-wildlife conflicts in villages within and around Ngorongoro Conservation Area. He specifically evaluated the effects of these conflicts on the local population's social and economic well-being. He was working on estimating the giraffe population in protected areas by the use of photographic capture mark re-capture. Currently he is working on exploring basic information from the human component angle of the problem and documentation of illegal hunting within Serengeti ecosystem. He also uses DNA metabarcoding techniques to understand the diet preferences of the pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri). Lastly, he studies on the altitudinal assemblages of stream macroinvertebrates on Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, using beta diversity analysis. He saves as a reviewer and Co-editor in different peer reviewed journals hosted by Elsevier and Public Library of Science (PLOS).