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TCHANA KWIGWA Elisée + 33(07) 69 57 41 23 25 years [email protected] 205 rue CROIX de las Cazes, H06C [email protected] Résidence Hameaux, 34000, Montpellier

Skype : princeelisee (Elisée Tchana) Highly motivated in the conservation of threaten species and resourceful in tree domestication technics i.e. vegetative propagation of plant species. Plants and Wildlife Inventories, GIS/Remote sensing, transcription, data collections, camera-trapping, financial management, computational modelling and statistics, grant writing and fund seeking. Driving Licence B EDUCATION 2016-2017: M.Sc. in Environmental Management of Tropical Forests and Ecosystems. End of year: June 2017/ AgroParisTech – Montpellier Supagro. 2013-2016: B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences with major Agroforestry. Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences Yaoundé /IBAYSUP. 2012-2013: GCE ‘A’ Levels (science oriented). Pi and Ju Anglo-Saxon International College Yaoundé.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 11/07 – 20/12/2016: ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (ZSL) YAOUNDÉ CAMEROON Research Associate working on Camera-trap data, wildlife analysis, articles writing and funds seeking. 10/05 – 09/08/2016: WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTER (WCA-ICRAF) YAOUNDÉ. Intern working on the assessment of understory light intensity in cocoa agroforest of varying tree association and density, Bokito landscape (Centre region Cameroon). Collecting Light data in various plots sampled; analysed data collected. 14/09 – 14/10/2015: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE (IITA) HEAD QUARTER YAOUNDÉ-NKOLBISSON Intern working on at the dynamic space-time evaluation of Lake Chad basin between 1997 and 2015 using the Remote sensing tool. 29/07 – 29/09/2014: WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTER (WCA-ICRAF) HEAD QUARTER YAOUNDÉ. Internship working on the identification of causal diseases on species found in the gene bank of ICRAF at Mbalmayo, Centre region Cameroon. 2015 – 2016: LITCHASONIC AGRIBUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENT YAOUNDÉ CAMEROON Junior Environmentalist 2015 – 2016: CASJEDCEM (CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC SUPPORT OF YOUNG IDENTITY WORKERS FOR THE CREATION OF JOBS AND MICRO PROJECTS) YAOUNDÉ CAMEROON GIS Assistant-trainer 2014 – 2015: CONGO BASIN INSTITUTE YAOUNDE CAMEROON Research-Assistant, on the Evaluation of HIV/AIDS healthcare in Baka communities of Southeast Cameroon (study), • Assisted principle investigator from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with research study on the social and economic factors influencing HIV infection in Baka populations of southeast Cameroon. • Transcribed interviews of medical providers from public and private clinics in the Department of Boumba-et-Ngoko, East region, and aided in data synthesis and analysis. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING  Camera Trapping Study Design and Data Analysis for Occupancy and Density Estimation June 19 - 30, 2017 Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) Virginia, USA  United for Wildlife’s free online courses  ESRI online course “Going Places with Spatial Analysis”

WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS  Participant at the Student Conference on conservation Science 2017, Cambridge University 28-30 March 2017  Seminar on the elaboration of a national strategy of sustainable management of mangrove ecosystems and coastal zones of Cameroon 14 – 15 /01/2014.  Fourth ANAFE Symposium held in Yaoundé from 25th to 27th August, 2014 on the THEMES: Agribusiness and risk management education: Curricula, policy reforms and best practices and ecosystem sustainability and climate change: Institutionalizing Agribusiness.  Conference on Gender and Forestry research by CIFOR being a key stalk holder at CRESA-Dschang University, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 07/03/2014  Workshop on Land Tenure Conflict Management using RATA (Rapid Land Tenure Assessment) analysis at TOU’NGOU HOTEL, Yaoundé-Cameroon. 15 – 16 /09/2014

COMPUTER SKILLS MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, RStudio, QGIS 2.18, ArcGIS 10.3, ENVI 5.1, ERDAS Imagine 2014, Java, CSS, Arduino. LANGUAGES ENGLISH: Native Speaker, French: Fluent, Spanish: Beginner

AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS IDEAWILD Equipment Grant 2015: Congruence between carbon stock and plant diversity in the Dja Biosphere Reserve: $650 ORGANIZATION AND AFFILIATION Board Member at the Society of Conservation Biology (SCB) Cameroon Chapter. Student member at the British Ecological Society (BES)

PUBLICATION 1- Ngo Bata, M, J Easton, O Fankem, T Wacher, T Elisée, PA Taguieteu, D Olson. In press. Extending the northeastern distribution of mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) into the Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon. African Primates.

REFEREES Dr. David OLSON Dr. Kevin NJABO Director, Zoological Society of London Associate Director, Africa Director, Center for Tropical Research (ZSL) – Cameroon, Yaoundé Department of Environmental Health Sciences Email: [email protected] University of California, Los Angeles La Kretz Hall, Suite 300 Tel : (+237) 651270026 Box 951456 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 Tel: (310) 267-5132 Email: [email protected]