🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to CLP alumnus Cedrick Fogwan on his recent "Science on a Shoestring" Award from the Society for Marine Mammalogy.
This award recognizes groundbreaking, low-cost ideas around the world that are having a major impact on marine conservation.
🌊 Cedrick's award honours his work with the African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization - AMMCO and its SIREN Citizen Science Program, an innovative, cost-effective approach to bridging data gaps and conserving marine wildlife in Africa.
Cedrick and the five other winners were presented with their awards on-stage at last month's SMM conference in Perth, Australia.
In addition to receiving the award, Cedrick was selected to participate in a prestigious panel discussion where he shared insights into the development and implementation of the SIREN Citizen Science Program.
Cedrick said: "What an honour to be part of the "Science on Shoestring" panel, sharing our work with the real heroes – the fishermen who report their sightings through our Siren Citizen Science Program. It was also inspiring to learn about other shoestring conservation initiatives from around the world."
🥳 Please join us in congratulating Cedrick and the other 2024 winners: Wint Hte, Vu Long, Federico Secunzu, Nester Brix and Carlos Yaipen-LLanos.
🐸 Cedrick was first supported by CLP in 2022, through one of our Future Conservationist Awards, for his work protecting the goliath frog, an Endangered species being over-hunted for food and the pet trade in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
👉 Through his CLP award, including participation in our Conservation Management & Leadership training, plus a subsequent Kate Stokes Memorial Award for CLP alumni, Cedrick has persuaded several hunters in the Mount Nlonako Reserve, Cameroon, to become citizen scientists and record sightings of the goliath frog, and worked with local groups to help set up snail farming to provide an alternative food source. These efforts have led to rescuing multiple individuals of the goliath frog, and the species is now returning to new rivers in the reserve 🎉
Read more about Cedrick's CLP-supported work:
ℹ️https://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/goliath-frog-cameroon
ℹ️https://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/working-with-the-community-to-save-the-goliath-frog-in-cameroon
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👉 CLP Training Feedback! 🌟
Over the last month, our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop participants completed a post-training survey anonymously to give us their honest thoughts ...
👀 🙌 ...we are delighted to say that their responses were overwhelmingly positive 💫
✨ 100% of the survey respondents rated the training as "Excellent"
✨ One described it as a "truly transformative experience"
✨ Another testified to the "enormous learning" and "unique opportunity" provided by the training
🙌 As one survey respondent said – “I think there will be a before/after in my career, I’m so motivated” – our participants have now returned home from Rwanda equipped with renewed confidence, motivation and knowledge to embark on their vital conservation work.
🤝 Some have told us they have already started passing on what they learned to their team members to help them effectively deliver their CLP projects.
👍 Others are making changes to the way they run their own workshops as a result of the training: "I will integrate the skills and knowledge gained from the CLP training into [my institution's] workshops, ensuring that participants benefit from practical, hands on learning experiences that can enhance their capacity in conservation and project management."
ℹ️ Read more about our 2024 CML training and how it has helped our participants to grow personally and professionally: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/news/cml-2024/
We are incredibly grateful to the Hempel Foundation, the March Conservation Fund, Fondation Segré and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for their support.
We are also thankful to our incredible partnership of BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora and Wildlife Conservation Society.
Last (but by no means least), we would like to thank our 2024 CML participants for taking time to give us their feedback; for their enthusiasm and dedication during the training; as well as the support, friendship and encouragement they have given each other throughout the journey 💚
📸All photos feature landscapes and wildlife from our wonderful training venue of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund campus, Kinigi, Rwanda.
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