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Grace Wambui Ngaruiya is a conservation ecologist from Kenya, whose work links climate change to loss of Africa's cultural heritage.

Career
As a conservation ecologist, Ngaruiya is known for ...

Since 2010, Ngaruiya has been a lecturer on plant biology at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. She also leads the Ecology and Conservation Biology section of the university.

Ngaruiya is a lead author for the Africa chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

Ngaruiya completed her Doctor of Philosophy in geography at the University of Hamburg in 2014, focusing on climate change adaptation and conflict geography.

As an EDGE fellow in 2008 and as research for her master's thesis, Ngaruiya surveyed the population of golden-rumped elephant shrews in the Boni National Reserve and Dodori National Reserve along the northern coast of Kenya. As part of this work, she discovered a new species of elephant shrew.

Personal life
Ngaruiya is from Ngong, Kenya. She holds a bachelor's degree in zoology and a master's degree in conservation biology from the University of Nairobi.

Selected publications

 * Ngaruiya, G. W. and Scheffran, J. "Actors and networks in resource conflict resolution under climate change in rural Kenya," Earth System Dynamics, 7, 2016, 441–452, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-441-2016.
 * Ngaruiya, Grace W. "Reweaving stakeholder networks: Promoting climate mitigation and Maasai culture using medicinal plants in Kenya," Ecosystem Services, 15, 2015, 103-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.05.010.