<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear all,</font><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Since January 2024, the Global Coordinating Group (GCG) for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) coalition has three co-chairs: <b class="">Burmaa Dashbel</b> (Mongolia), <b class="">Enrique Michaud</b> (Peru) and <b class="">Igshaan Samuels</b> (South Africa).</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Igshaan has been co-cordinating with Maryam Niamir-Fuller since June 2022 - and Maryam was coordinator for years before that. Maryam has stepped down as co-chair but (fortunately for all of us!) will remain in the team in the virtual Global Secretariat of the IYRP coalition. </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Welcome to Burmaa and Enrique as the new co-chairs!</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Biosketches of the three co-chairs can be found attached. This is also posted on the IYRP website under News (<a href="https://www.iyrp.info/sites/iyrp.org/files/Current co-chairs of IYRP GCG Jan 2024r.pdf" class="">https://www.iyrp.info/sites/iyrp.org/files/Current%20co-chairs%20of%20IYRP%20GCG%20Jan%202024r.pdf</a>).</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Cheers,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Ann</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global Secretariat</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" class="">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" class="">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a> / <a href="mailto:a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org" class="">a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org</a></i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class=""><i class="">W: <a href="http://www.agrecol.de" class="">www.agrecol.de</a> / <a href="http://www.ditsl.org" class="">www.ditsl.org</a> / <a href="http://www.celep.info" class="">www.celep.info</a> /<a href="http://www.iyrp.info" class="">www.iyrp.info</a></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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