Team leader for the ecological, economic and socio-cultural sustainability of the largest private logging company (family-owned CIB at that time) in RoC, operating in the Sangha region of northern RoC. Found that their claim to be a leader in the rational management of tropical forests was unfounded as there was no regeneration (in economic terms) of the only three timber species they were harvesting at that time (1995). Recommended that there main opportunity for improving their environmental record in the near term was to put an end to the transport of bush meat on their logging trucks — given the fact that they controlled all access roads to their Pokola concession. I learned later that CIB moved quickly to implement this ban on transport of illegal bush meat on their trucks and roads. Employed by IUCN in 1995 and 1996.
Technical advisor for the World Bank/GEF PROGECAP ICDP project. I served as interim technical advisor during a period of crisis in the project’s implementation just after the World Bank supervisory mission had insisted in an aide-memoire that the GoRoC a) replace the project coordinator; b) suspend the contract with the consulting firm providing technicial assistance until an investigation could be conducted of their accounting practices; c) hire an interim technical advisor until the investigation was completed, and; d) replace all the full-time experts on the project. I maintained good working relations during their high stress period and visited all the field sites during this period of political unrest and insecurity, some of them multiple times. Employed by PROGECAP (government of RoC) 1995 & 96.
Team leader for the development of a community-based wildlife management project for the sustainable production of bush meat for local markets in four Congo Basin countries, including RoC. Oversaw four national consultant and held stakeholder workshops in each country.
Team leader for the evaluation of the $130 million USAID-funded Central African Program for the Environment (CARPE) including field visits to Nouabale Ndoki, the xxx logging concession and the CIB concession at Pokola.