Lameck Kachena is an emerging environmental anthropologist with extensive experience in socio-environmental interactions. He holds a Certificate in Climate Change and its Impacts from Brown University (USA), an M.Sc. in Social Ecology, and a BSc. in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town. His doctoral research explores the complex socio-ecological and geopolitical dynamics at the intersection of migration and conservation within transboundary parks connecting Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Informed by political ecology theory and participatory methodologies which include visual art-based storytelling tools, community mapping, transect walks, ranking and scoring to understand socio-ecological dynamics associated with environmental governance and changes among diverse groups of people. Lameck has actively supported research initiatives for various international projects, including an ESRC-funded project on Transboundary Resource Management along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique Border, led by the University of Edinburgh. Between 2019 and 2022, he collaborated with scholars from Zimbabwe and the University of Edinburgh to study the impacts of Cyclone Idai on the livelihoods and well-being of communities in southeastern Zimbabwe. In 2022, he was awarded a grant by the Rufford Foundation to investigate the socio-ecological impacts of invasive alien plants in the Transboundary Conservation Area shared by Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The findings from these research endeavors have been published in prominent journals such as Conservation and Society, Geojournal, Biological Invasions, and Mobilities. More recently, Lameck co-authored a book titled “COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe: Emerging Perspectives and the Morphing of a Sustainable Urban.” His ongoing research continues to make significant contributions to critical discussions on environmental governance, migration, and conservation across southeast Africa.