Hi Fidèle,

Thanks for your message, it‘s nice to connect! And great to see that you have already gained valuable experience at Garamba NP. Learning English is an important step for working in conservation (internationally), so congratulations on having already mastered this step.

If you‘re interested in great apes, I suggest subscribing to WNPRC‘s primate-job list via this link:

https://primate.wisc.edu/primate-info-net/the-pin-career-groups-jobs-volunteer-opportunities-degree-and-other-programs/

It lists pretty much all primate-related jobs world-wide (and I‘ve found several jobs via this list myself, including the one with WCS).

I can also put you in touch with some of my Congolese (Brazzaville) colleagues who might be able to provide more local resources to you.

Cheers,

Jakob

Hi Fairuse,
Thanks for the welcome :)
I‘ve been working with students and pupils in several different settings already, as a seminar leader at the University of Kent, as a language teacher in Switzerland and Germany, at public school in Germany for a year as well. In my experience it‘s important that students do practical work as well, directly apply theories that they learn about. After many years at university (where lectures and courses are very theoretical at most times), that was very helpful advice from a colleague at school. With local (Congolese) research assistants and university students, I used some of my teaching materials to do conversational English lessons, practical lessons (Excel, R) in statistics and in reading and writing scientific papers. An example: we analysed how the introduction of a scientific paper is generally structured (starting with the bigger picture and then narrowing down to test a theory). As an exercise, students had to color-code these different steps in actual publications and write an introduction for their own project.
Let me know if you have any more specific questions (we can start a threat or exchange messages)