with Brent Stirton, Emmanuel de Merode and Godefroid Wambale on Jul 11, 2008
Dr. Emmanuel de Merode is Executive Director of WildlifeDirect.
Anthropologist, conservationist, pilot, worked to control the bushmeat trade and protect endangered wildlife in Central and Eastern Africa. Belgian, residing in Kenya. His primary interest is to provide support for African wildlife rangers in remote and difficult national parks and reserves. His work was primarily in the parks of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, working to sustain the national parks through the DRC’s 10-year civil war. Author of 14 scientific papers and co-editor of the book Virunga: the survival of Africa’s first National Park.
