EPI FRIEND OF THE MONTH

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...

We’re delighted to introduce our Friend of the Month for May, Grant Burden. Grant recently joined the EPI Foundation team as a Special...

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

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

Our Friend of the Month is Lt-Col Elvire-Joëlle Mailly Zouzou, who is Côte d’Ivoire’s Deputy Director-General of Forests and Fauna.

Dr Mary Molokwu-Odozi, Country and Operations Manager in Liberia for Fauna & Flora International, an EPI partner.

Our EPI Friend of the Month is Albertina Nzuzi of Angola, leads the Angolan Ministry of the Environment on all CITES-related issues, and is

Our EPI Friend of the Month is Khamis Ding, Director of External Relations and Natural Resources Management of the South Sudan National Wild

Our latest EPI Friend of the Month is Jadress Komugasho, of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, who plays a crucial role in managing her country’

Our EPI Friend of the Month is Brighton Kumchedwa, Director of Malawi’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife. Brighton was awarded the

Christian was Technical Director of Gabon’s National Parks for 6 years before becoming Director of Communications. He has 20 years of field