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Particular qualifications to be a Regional Councillor:
In addition to a PhD thesis on environmental issues, I have more than 20 years of experience in scientific research, training of young people, service in tourism, wildlife and protected areas administration, development and coordination of numerous field projects related to poaching and illegal logging, and promoting the participation of local populations in the protection of nature. I work actively with the technical administrations in charge of the environment, forests and wildlife, nature protection and sustainable development, as well as with many technical and financial partners. As the Chair of the IUCN National Committee in Cameroon, I already actively participated in 3 World Conservation Congresses and I am actively working on strategies to make the IUCN One Programme Approach a reality. My organization, which was already working with the former IUCN Regional Office for Central Africa (BRAC), was among the first to join IUCN in Cameroon and to be part of the very first core organisations that led to the creation of the very first IUCN National Committee on 2 and 3 March 2010. I also actively participated in the preparatory regional forums.

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Experience in fields of concern to IUCN:

I coordinated the implementation of several projects on the conservation and enhancement of natural resources, many in collaboration with the IUCN Cameroon Programme. I contributed to the creation of many protected areas in Cameroon. I participate in the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of national parks management plans. I have worked as a consultant to the Network of Protected Areas of Central Africa (RAPAC) and the Central African Forestry Commission (COMIFAC). I supported the candidature of RAPAC and the Garoua Wildlife School as IUCN Members. From 2014 to 2018, I took, myself, the initiative to join the IUCN Cameroon Programme, to which my organisation has allocated funding under its Ngog-Mapubi/Dibang inter-communal forest designation and protection programme. As a result, my NGO has become one of the few members in the region to provide funding to IUCN, which was seen as a possible model and a good practice to be promoted under IUCN's One Programme Approach. This 15000 ha forest is now protected by decree. I coordinate the activities of my organization in carrying out environmental impact studies through which we highlight nature-based solutions.

Acceptance of Nomination
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Manifesto
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