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Would you be willing to be approached and share your lessons learned in your area(s) of expertise with our community?
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Eston Kimaswoch
Conservation Education, Participation and Awareness programs Office, Kenya Environmental Conservation Network
Nervours Daka
Donor Relations Specialist, AFRICAN HEALTH VOLUNTEERS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE RESCUE AND REFERRALS PARTNERSHIPS
Boka Kondua Dieuleveut
responsible for the sub-committee: Conservation of biodiversity and climate change of the NGO Kimbala Development., Kimbala Développement (K.D)
Marta Villasán Barroso
Biodiversity Conservation Biologist , Ecoenergías del Guadiana / Fauna&Vida NGO / SEO BirdLife
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Thanks so much for hosting me on your platform @Jack Cole
Hi Boka, congrats for being accepted to deliver an oral presentation at WILD12. What kind of sponsorship are you looking for exactly? The more information you can provide (e.g. what the money would go towards), the better other community members can be of help. Thank you.
@Alexis Kriel : would you perhaps know of any funding opportunities to promote Pangolin-related work?
my reply to @Thirza Loffeld above
Hi Boka, congrats for being accepted to deliver an oral presentation at WILD12. What kind of sponsorship are you looking for exactly? The more information you can provide (e.g. what the money would go towards), the better other community members can be of help. Thank you.
@Alexis Kriel : would you perhaps know of any funding opportunities to promote Pangolin-related work?
Those should be very useful.
Hi Boka, congrats for being accepted to deliver an oral presentation at WILD12. What kind of sponsorship are you looking for exactly? The more information you can provide (e.g. what the money would go towards), the better other community members can be of help. Thank you.
@Alexis Kriel : would you perhaps know of any funding opportunities to promote Pangolin-related work?
Hi Thirza - funding opportunities do come up for DRC and for early career conservationists. I will share if something comes up that fits. https://fundsforngospremium.com/ This is a good portal, where you can define what sort of funding you are looking for, and you will be kept informed within that scope. The business side of an NGO needs as much attention as the recipient or cause that we'd like to support. Without that in place and operating well - an NGO won't succeed long term. Fundraising has to be part of the business strategy and the more that management of an NGO focuses on it and becomes familiar with fund-raising methods, the better the organisation will ultimately fare. There need to be team members that have skills in grant writing / report writing / accounts / NGO governance etc. There is very little funding available in a vacuum. I will certainly share here, if I become aware of opportunities that fit.
It is heartening to see your group driving awareness. Am I correct in understanding that you are situated in the DRC? I'm wondering what you are planning for your African Pangolin Rescue Programme - can you give some idea of what this will entail? Our organisation African Pangolin Working Group was established in 2011, as one of three organisations in the world that focused on pangolins and the threats to this species, that was seen as an emerging trend in the illegal wildlife trade. I am a member of the IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group. Alexis Kriel www.africanpangolin.org
Thanks for the information. We know Save Vietnam's Wildlife, although they are specialists in the Asian Pangolin Species, we trust that they will apply the correct veterinary / rehabilitation / release techniques for the African Species. I'm glad that they have shown commitment to pangolin conservation in DRC, where it is very urgently needed. We have worked with UGADEC there, for sensitization and saved a few pangolins in DRC, along the way - also working with a vet (who is a specialist in great apes, but now has experience with pangolin veterinary care). Not sure how you are going to work with the use of pangolin in the bushmeat trade, and apply legislation to this, because you will be able to retrieve thousands of pangolins, but the question will be if you have to buy them out of the bushmeat trade - which would further stimulate the trade - or confiscate them legally, with law enforcement support. It sounds like you have a plan. Good luck with it.
It is heartening to see your group driving awareness. Am I correct in understanding that you are situated in the DRC? I'm wondering what you are planning for your African Pangolin Rescue Programme - can you give some idea of what this will entail? Our organisation African Pangolin Working Group was established in 2011, as one of three organisations in the world that focused on pangolins and the threats to this species, that was seen as an emerging trend in the illegal wildlife trade. I am a member of the IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group. Alexis Kriel www.africanpangolin.org