Helen Wanjiru Gichohi is a Kenyan ecologist who was President of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) from 2007 to 2013.
[2] While working for her PhD, Helen studied the effect of controlled burning on wildlife grazing areas in the Nairobi National Park.
Her conclusion was that, properly managed, fire could be helpful in maintaining an open savannah that provides food for wildlife.
[1] In 1990, while a researcher at Wildlife Conservation International (WCI), Helen Gichohi prepared an environmental impact statement on a commercial Export Processing Zone for the Kenyan government.
[7] She was a member of board of trustees of the Kenya Land Conservation Trust and of Beads for Education, a non-profit organisation that helps mothers earn money to send their daughters to school.