News from the Field

We’re delighted to include another new country for our Friend of the Month. Duclair Makaya is from the Republic of Congo, where he works...

We’re delighted to introduce a Friend of the Month from the Republic of Benin, which has West Africa’s largest remaining elephant...

Our Friend of the Month for February is Dr Akankwasah Barirega, who is head of Uganda’s Department of Wildlife Conservation and the EPI’s...

Our Friend of the Month for January is Miles Zidana, Head of Investigations in Malawi’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW)....

Our friend of the month is Maureen Kinyanjui from Kenya, who works with our partner organisation, Save The Elephants, on the front line...

Our November Friend of the Month is Jose Agostinho in Luanda, who has recently joined the EPI team, helping to secure Angola’s ivory.

Our Friend of the Month is Barre Koivogui, from the Republic of Guinea, an EPI Member country.

Our March Friend of the Month is James Lutalo, Director for the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities in Uganda.

Our February Friend of the Month is Lynn Clifford – Field Manager at Wildlife Action Group, Malawi

Our January Friend of the Month is Kumara Wakjira – Director General, Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority.

Our December Friend of the Month is Futsum Hagos, Director of Wildlife Conservation in Eritrea.

Our November Friend of the Month is a key partner in Nigeria- Andy Dunn, Country Director for WCS.

Our Friend of the Month is John Scanlon, Special Envoy for our partners, African Parks. John was Secretary-General of CITES from 2010-2018.

Our EPI friend of the month is Salimata Kone, who is one of Côte d’Ivoire’s senior conservationists, as Director of Wildlife in the Ministry

Our Friend of the Month is Tunde Morakinyo, a founder of African Nature Investors, working to protect some of Nigeria’s wild places and rema

Our Friend of the Month is Dr Pete Morkel, wildlife veterinarian, who earlier this year helped the EPI’s Dr Dolmia Malachie with a collaring

Our friend of the month is Jim Justus Nyamu from Kenya. Jim is an indefatigable walker for elephants and the Executive Director of the Eleph

Our EPI Friend of the Month is Angola’s Minister of the Environment, Paula Francisco Coelho, who has championed the cause of elephant conser

Getnet Ygzaw is the recently appointed head of communications for the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA)

Maria do Rosário Bom Jesus Lima, an Angolan lawyer, helped the EPI earlier this year in the successful implementation of Angola’s first ever