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In June 2019 Tomas won National Geographic’s Buffet Award for Conservation Leadership in Africa! Read more here: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2019/07/16/meet-conservationists-and-national-geographic-buffet-award-recipients-tomas-diagne-and-patricia-medici/ And then in November 2019, Tomas won a Tusk Award! https://www.tusk.org/news/tusk-shines-spotlight-on-heroes-of-african-conservation/
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This month we welcomed Lara, our first intern, who is working with us in Senegal! Lara has a background in marine mammals and she’s helping us with African manatee and other marine mammal surveys, working with turtles at our ACI breeding facility, and assisting with database management. We really appreciate her enthusiasm and hard work, and we look forward to growing our internship program to
On October 9 our colleague Dr. Edem Eniang rescued a 2-3 week old manatee calf that had been caught in a fishing net by hunters. The hunters had kept the calf in a well for 3 days and were planning to eat it, so the timing of the rescue was very lucky! This is the calf in the well… if you look closely you can
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We are very excited to announce that the African Manatee Project has joined forces with the African Chelonian Institute and formed a new non-profit organization for research, conservation, and education of all African manatees and turtle species! We are now the African Aquatic Conservation Fund. Our mission: Through focused research, conservation, and education actions, the African Aquatic Conservation Fund is dedicated to the preservation of
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Last June, before I went to Gabon for the MENTOR training workshop, I made my first trip to Cameroon. I’ve been working with two very energetic manatee researchers there, Aristide and Rodrigue, for several years now and was very happy to fionally get there! We started out at their main study site, Lake Ossa in southern Cameroon. We did several surveys on the lake and
I’m very late in writing to announce an exciting new initiative that I’ve recently begun. Thanks to funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I’m leading a two year long fellowship training program for 8 Central African manatee biologists, called MENTOR Manatee. MENTOR (Mentoring for ENvironmental Training in Outreach and Resource conservation) is a signature initiative of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wildlife Without
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Earlier this week I spent two days in the Delta Saloum region of central Senegal to meet with the director and staff of Bamboung National Park. Two years ago they found a dead manatee (the cause of its death was not due to humans as far as they could tell) and Tomas was able to collect samples from it, which I analyzed in Florida. Now
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A well-known manatee hunter has been arrested in Togo and over 20 skulls and 17 other bones confiscated, thanks to the great work of a Togolese organization called Alliance Nationale des Consumateurs et de l’Environment (ANCE). Click here to see the story and photos. I heard about this hunter as far back as 2008 when I was in Togo to attend the Convention of Migratory
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