News from the Field

Our January Friend of the Month is Randall Dobayou, Deputy Executive Director of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency, the...

Our Friend of the Month for December is Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the...

Our November Friend of the Month is Geoffrey Nacha, who has recently taken over as country director in Nigeria for Africa Nature...

Our friend of the month is Adams Cassinga, a pioneering conservationist in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Adams is the founder...

For September we’re delighted to introduce our first ever Ghanaian EPI Friend of the Month. Sheila Nana Akua Ashong is Deputy Director of...

Our Friend of the Month is Laila Johnson-Salami, a journalist from Nigeria who has made a series of films about environmental issues in...

Our Friend of the Month is Lona Gore, from South Sudan. Lona works for the Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism in Juba, where...

Our Friend of the Month for June is Moses Lesoloyia, from northern Kenya. Moses is Project Manager for the Milgis Trust, working to...

Our friend of the month is Captain Cedric Mondon of Côte D’Ivoire. Cedric is Head of Wildlife Protection Services in the Ministry of...

Our EPI Friend of the Month for April is Sam Shaba, who works with Honeyguide, which promotes community conservation in Tanzania. Sam is...

Our EPI Friend of the Month for March is Dr Susan Canney, who is Director of the Mali Elephant Project, working to save one of Africa’s...

Our Friend of the Month for February is Jean Louis Kakoua, who is the Deputy Technical Director for Gabon’s national parks, as well as...

Our Friend of the Month for January is Emmanuel Olabode, project coordinator for the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, leading on the...

Our friend of the month for December is Dr Ralph Chami of the IMF, who has done pioneering work on the economic value of Forest...

Our friend of the month for November is Vivek Menon from India. Vivek is the founder and executive director of the Wildlife Trust of...

Our Friend of the Month for October is another new member of the EPI Foundation team. Andrew Crichton, who is based in South Africa, has...

Our Friend of the Month for September is Hans Magaya, a new member of the EPI Foundation team. Hans, who is based in his home country...

Our Friend of the Month for August is Roger Fotso, who works for our partners WCS, as country director in his native Cameroon. Dear Roger...

We’re excited that our July Friend of the Month comes from Eritrea, whose elephant population is one of the least known in Africa....

We’re delighted to introduce our Friend of the Month for June, Donatus Gadiye. Donatus is Elephant Monitoring Coordinator in Tanzania’s...