Keomany Leuangthi, of the Southeast Asian nation of Laos, works with Asian Arks, a nonprofit in Asia dedicated to conservation, doing species identification and as a field technician. “In the field team, I so far have set up camera traps and collected data, and also participate in a law enforcement group as a ranger in …
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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 …
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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Tshering Pem joins NMW as the country coordinator for the eastern Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. She tells us about herself: “As a young and aspiring conservationist who received a bachelor of science degree in forestry in 2021 from the College of Natural Resources in Bhutan, National Moth Week will be my first ever participation in …
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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National Moth Week welcomes Abdou Zakou as the country coordinator for the West Africa nation of the Republic of the Niger. He writes this about himself: “I hold a degree in Forestry Techniques from the Faculty of Agronomy of Abdou Moumouni University in Niger. The theme of my thesis of the engineering cycle was on the …
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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Tony Benn, new country coordinator for Botswana, a landlocked country in Soutern Africa, tells us about himself: “I love observing and taking pics of the moths that come to lights around my house in central Botswana. “I’m now a retiree, but have worked as a school chemistry teacher in Botswana for 36 years and still …
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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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