Suhail Bashir (He/Him)
Environmental Consultant, WildHub Community Advocate, ENS Environmnetal Consultancy Sharjah
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- United Arab Emirates
I am HOUNMAVO Amétépé in doctoral thesis in Biodiversity. I am in co-direction at the University of Lome (Togo) and the Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris (France). I have a Master's degree in Ecology and Wildlife Resources Management and a DU from Senghor University in Protected Areas Management focusing on environmental crime. I work on specific missions for the NGO AGBOZEGUE which works in the conservation of nature. I work in the field, from ethnozological surveys and awareness campaigns for the preservation of ecosystems, through the inventory and ecological monitoring of different zoological groups to the installation of camera traps.
Gayatri Chawda
Assistant Professor (Guest Faculty), Netaji Subhas University of Technology-West Campus
25 Years in the automotive industry, involved in new projects - focusing on Chassis, Steering and Brakes systems. I am now looking for new opportunities. Have been involved in / exposed to a number of conservation / geological projects in the past - e.g. Riomuchacho Organic Farm, Bahia, Ecuador; Tambopata Reserve, Peru; Analysis of the effects of cataclysmic floods in Iceland.
Am also a keen outdoors enthusiast - have climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Cotopaxi in Ecuador and El Misti, Chachani in Peru, and Jbel Toubkal in Morocco. At home in the UK, I am a keen cyclist, having recently completed a John O'Groats to Land's End ride in 2019. I also maintain a large garden, growing some food, keeping bees and chickens and trying to create a haven for wildlife! I have always been interested in conservation and would like to utilise my transferable skills in this area or other environmental research and development projects.
I am a Lawyer of the Cameroon Bar Association with years of experience volunteering and working in wildlife conservation and environmental protection and sustainable development. I currently work for TRAFFIC - Central Africa as the Legal Assistant – Wildlife Law Enforcement and Collaboration for an INL-funded project. I have experience in wildlife case monitoring/research and delivering capacity-building training in wildlife crime/conservation litigation and Environmental Justice. Following my work as a MENTOR-POP (Progress on Pangolins) Fellow, I contributed to the uplisting of Pangolins to CITES Appendix I, and its reclassification to "Class A" (highest level of species protection in Cameroon), as well as the C4ADS report, “Tipping the scales”.
I am interested in Wildlife Conservation/Environmental Law and Policy, and social behaviour change across the different wildlife conservation and environmental protection stakeholders.
Hi! My name is Fay and I'm a budding chiropterologist. I've been researching bats since my postgraduate degree in 2016. I have worked for both conservation NGOs and ecological consultancies in Mauritius, Malawi and the UK. Now I am studying towards my PhD at Kyoto University where my research focuses on one of the lesser known endemic species, Myotis pruinosus.
DR WATUWA JAMES
ZOO AND WILDLIFE VETERINARIAN /CONSERVATIONIST, UGANDA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER 2. FOUNDER ENDANGERED WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION (www.ewco.org.ug)
I am a Primatologist specialized in captive and wild nonhuman primate sociobiology, with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology. I have 17 years of experience in development project management including 5 in Biodiversity Conservation, with experience in East and Central Africa, and the Middle East. I currently live in Ouesso, a city in northern Congo where for the past 2 years I have been coordinating a program called Sustainable Wildlife Management - SWM. SWM is about creating the conditions for rural communities in northern Congo to manage wildlife resources themselves, taking ownership and exploiting them in a sustainable way. As part of the SWM Program, I am responsible for aspects related to the development of alternative activities to hunting (livestock farming), development of social marketing campaigns for more sustainable consumption of animal protein, and mitigation of risk of zoonoses. I therefore often find myself having to involve stakeholders...
When I was ten I decided to study marine biology and become an expert in sharks, unfortunately suffering from sea sickness I decided to change plans.
So I started my path by graduating as a chemical and biological laboratory technician and studying environmental science. Right out of university I was able to volunteer for a year in a natural park as an environmental educator and marketing assistant.
Due to family problems I had to help in the family business and I employed my expertise in finding new sustainable materials used in the small fashion company my family owned until Covid.
In 2021 I opened my own company focusing in localization and marketing services to support sustainable initiatives such as:
- translating subtitles for courses focused on decarbonization and circular economy
- localization of the Earth Hero app, thanks to the Proz Pro Bono initiative
I am currently finishing a 6-months course to become a front-end developer and help clients creating unique pages to promote their initiatives.
Dimitry ZINVOEDO
Student and Assistant to the Biodiversity monitoring Officer , Oiseaux et Horizons
I studied Management of Natural Resources at the Université Nationale d'Agriculture du Bénin, where I earned a bachelor's degree upon completion of a study focused on assessing anthropic threats on the Monotes kerstingii population, a tree species in northern Benin, within the forest of Tchaourou-Toui-Kiolibo. Following my studies, I completed a one-year internship at CREDI-ONG (Centre Régional de Recherche et d'Education pour un Développement Intégré), where I actively participated in various activities such as marshbuck monitoring, bird counting, and more.
In 2019, I presented a conference on challenges related to biodiversity protection in Benin and France at Refuge de l'Arche in Château-Gontier, France.
Subsequently, I joined Oiseaux et Horizons, an NGO that promotes birds through sustainable tourism and awareness. Next year, I plan to pursue a Master's degree in Ecological Engineering at Corsica University.