The Long Road to Recovery for Angola's Elephants
Our August Friend of the Month is Christy Phillimore who has been working with our partners the HALO Trust in Angola for the past decade....
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EPI FRIEND OF THE MONTH
Every month we focus on an outstanding individual working to save elephants in one of the EPI countries.
- Jul 10
Jaime Dias - Friend of the Month
Our Friend of the Month for July is Jaime Dias, a bush pilot flying a lonely and courageous journey for conservation in the skies of...
- Jun 15
Burkina Faso Joins the Elephant Protection Initiative
Burkina Faso has become the 23rd country to join the Elephant Protection Initiative. The EPI is a pan-African alliance of countries...
- Jun 6
Cléo Mashini Mwatha
Our June Friend of the Month is Cléo Mashini Mwatha, the CEO of Juristrale, a non-governmental organisation from the Democratic Republic...
- May 11
Dominique Gonçalves
Our Friend of the Month for May is Dominique Gonçalves, who runs the Elephant Ecology Project in Gorongosa National Park, in Mozambique....
- Apr 17
Hailu Zerfu
Our Friend of the Month for April is Hailu Zerfu from Ethiopia. Hailu is a human-wildlife conflict and coexistence expert at the...
- Mar 13
Vianet Djenguet
Our Friend of the Month for March is an award winning wildlife filmmaker from the Republic of Congo, Vianet Djenguet. Vianet will be...
- Feb 7
Samaila Sahailou
It’s an enormous pleasure to introduce a first ever Friend of the Month from Niger, which in December 2022 became the 22nd country to...
- Jan 11
Randall Dobayou
Our January Friend of the Month is Randall Dobayou, Deputy Executive Director of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency, the...
- Dec 7, 2022
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
Our Friend of the Month for December is Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the...
- Nov 9, 2022
Geoffrey Nacha
Our November Friend of the Month is Geoffrey Nacha, who has recently taken over as country director in Nigeria for Africa Nature...
- Oct 3, 2022
Adams Cassinga
Our friend of the month is Adams Cassinga, a pioneering conservationist in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Adams is the founder...
- Sep 6, 2022
Sheila Nana Akua Ashong
For September we’re delighted to introduce our first ever Ghanaian EPI Friend of the Month. Sheila Nana Akua Ashong is Deputy Director of...
- Aug 2, 2022
Laila Johnson-Salami
Our Friend of the Month is Laila Johnson-Salami, a journalist from Nigeria who has made a series of films about environmental issues in...
- Jul 13, 2022
Lona Gore
Our Friend of the Month is Lona Gore, from South Sudan. Lona works for the Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism in Juba, where...
- Jun 15, 2022
Moses Lesoloyia
Our Friend of the Month for June is Moses Lesoloyia, from northern Kenya. Moses is Project Manager for the Milgis Trust, working to...
- May 11, 2022
Captain Cedric Mondon
Our friend of the month is Captain Cedric Mondon of Côte D’Ivoire. Cedric is Head of Wildlife Protection Services in the Ministry of...
- Apr 20, 2022
Sam Shaba
Our EPI Friend of the Month for April is Sam Shaba, who works with Honeyguide, which promotes community conservation in Tanzania. Sam is...
- Mar 22, 2022
Dr Susan Canney
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...
- Feb 24, 2022
Jean Louis Kakoua
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...
- Jan 22, 2022
Emmanuel Olabode
Our Friend of the Month for January is Emmanuel Olabode, project coordinator for the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, leading on the...
- Dec 16, 2021
Dr Ralph Chami
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...
- Nov 16, 2021
Vivek Menon
Our friend of the month for November is Vivek Menon from India. Vivek is the founder and executive director of the Wildlife Trust of...
- Oct 27, 2021
Andrew Crichton
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...
- Sep 23, 2021
Hans Magaya
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...
- Aug 4, 2021
Roger Fotso
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...
- Jul 7, 2021
Teckeste Kiflemariam
We’re excited that our July Friend of the Month comes from Eritrea, whose elephant population is one of the least known in Africa....
- Jun 9, 2021
Donatus Gadiye
We’re delighted to introduce our Friend of the Month for June, Donatus Gadiye. Donatus is Elephant Monitoring Coordinator in Tanzania’s...
- May 19, 2021
Grant Burden
We’re delighted to introduce our Friend of the Month for May, Grant Burden. Grant recently joined the EPI Foundation team as a Special...
- Apr 7, 2021
Duclair Makaya
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...
- Mar 10, 2021
Ulysse Sinagabé Korogone
We’re delighted to introduce a Friend of the Month from the Republic of Benin, which has West Africa’s largest remaining elephant...
- Feb 10, 2021
Dr Akankwasah Barirega
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...
- Jan 14, 2021
Miles Zidana
Our Friend of the Month for January is Miles Zidana, Head of Investigations in Malawi’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW)....
- Dec 2, 2020
Maureen Kinyanjui
Our friend of the month is Maureen Kinyanjui from Kenya, who works with our partner organisation, Save The Elephants, on the front line...
- Nov 2, 2020
Jose Agostinho
Our November Friend of the Month is Jose Agostinho in Luanda, who has recently joined the EPI team, helping to secure Angola’s ivory.
- Apr 8, 2020
Barre Koivogui
Our Friend of the Month is Barre Koivogui, from the Republic of Guinea, an EPI Member country.
- Mar 17, 2020
James Lutalo
Our March Friend of the Month is James Lutalo, Director for the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities in Uganda.
- Feb 20, 2020
Lynn Clifford
Our February Friend of the Month is Lynn Clifford – Field Manager at Wildlife Action Group, Malawi
- Jan 9, 2020
Kumara Wakjira
Our January Friend of the Month is Kumara Wakjira – Director General, Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority.
- Dec 10, 2019
Futsum Hagos
Our December Friend of the Month is Futsum Hagos, Director of Wildlife Conservation in Eritrea.
- Nov 12, 2019
Andy Dunn
Our November Friend of the Month is a key partner in Nigeria- Andy Dunn, Country Director for WCS.
- Oct 9, 2019
John Scanlon
Our Friend of the Month is John Scanlon, Special Envoy for our partners, African Parks. John was Secretary-General of CITES from 2010-2018.
- Sep 10, 2019
Salimata Kone
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
- Aug 7, 2019
Tunde Morakinyo
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
- Jul 9, 2019
Dr Pete Morkel
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
- Jun 5, 2019
Jim Justus Nyamu
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
- May 2, 2019
Paula Francisco Coelho
Our EPI Friend of the Month is Angola’s Minister of the Environment, Paula Francisco Coelho, who has championed the cause of elephant conser
- Apr 4, 2019
Getnet Ygzaw
Getnet Ygzaw is the recently appointed head of communications for the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA)
- Mar 6, 2019
Maria do Rosário Bom Jesus Lima
Maria do Rosário Bom Jesus Lima, an Angolan lawyer, helped the EPI earlier this year in the successful implementation of Angola’s first ever
- Feb 5, 2019
Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele
Our EPI Friend of the Month is Nigeria’s Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele, the Head of Wildlife and CITES Management, in the Department of Forestry in
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