Team

Meet Salif Kone, Country Coordinator for Mali

Salif Kone of the West Africa nation of Mali obtained his Agro Sylvo Pastoral technician diploma in 2020. “I have worked on climate change and sustainable agriculture,” he said. “My passion for the climate and agriculture led me to create an Association called “Groupe Action Recherche pour le Développement Durable au Mali” (Action Research Group …

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Meet Kouadio Samson Koffi, Country Coordinator for Ivory Coast

Trained in phytogeography, sociology and biodiversity, Kouadio Samson Koffi earned a master’s degree in computer biodiversity in 2021from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (FSA) of Benin. His training applied his technical skills in working on data collection, analysis and processing in order to define areas favorable to the plant species Nesogordonia papaverifera, a tropical plant …

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Meet Dr. Komlan Edjèdu Sodjinou, Country Coordinator for Togo

Dr. Komlan Edjèdu Sodjinou of the West Africa nation of Togo is an enthusiastic and versatile scientist with a strong interest in biodiversity, forestry, horticulture and urban ecology and plant biotechnology. He is a member of the PHOBIOT (Physiology Horticulture and Biotechnology Team) research team of Laboratory of Forestry Research (LRF) of the University of …

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Meet Dr. Moira FitzPatrick, Country Coordinator for Zimbabwe

Dr. Moira FitzPatrick is an arachnologist and director at Natural History Museum in the Southern Africa country of Zimbabwe, where she has been collecting and researching spiders for many years.   She tells us about herself: “During the Covid-19 lockdowns and stay- at-home restrictions, we created an iNaturalist 48-hour invertebrate bioblitz and the museum light …

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Meet Shawan Chowdhury, Bangladesh Country Coordinator for National Moth Week

Shawan Chowdhury recently completed his PhD from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, and is now working there as a research assistant. As a part of his doctoral research, Shawan worked on “insect migration and conservation” with Professors Richard Fuller and Myron Zalucki. Before arriving in Australia, Shawan completed his bachelor’s …

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National Moth Week Welcomes 10 New Country Coordinators

From Bangladesh to Zimbabwe, ten scientists and educators in a variety of fields including ecology, entomology and conservation, have joined National Moth Week in 2022 as country coordinators, bringing the total to 34, including our first USA student coordinator. Country coordinators help to raise awareness about moths and increase participation in NMW.  Thanks to the …

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