{"id":318,"date":"2019-03-01T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikanodemosites.com\/wems\/?post_type=cpt_team&#038;p=318"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:36:09","slug":"bonaventure-ebayi","status":"publish","type":"cpt_team","link":"https:\/\/mikanodemosites.com\/wems\/team\/bonaventure-ebayi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonaventure EBAYI"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"318\" class=\"elementor elementor-318\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8052519 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8052519\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-74a40d9 sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left\" data-id=\"74a40d9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c216a2 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c216a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-snippet mb64\"><p>In 2010, under his leadership, LATF established a collaboration with United Nations University to monitor transnational forest and wildlife crime using the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) model. WEMS-Africa became the first geo-spatial model in Africa to monitor wildlife and forest crime and operated exclusively by governments and scientifically supported by global research institutions.\u00a0 He later invited researchers and scientists to work on the non-nominal data generated from WEMS and identify appropriate measures to address the challenges related to forest and wildlife crime. By the time of his retirement as the Director of Lusaka Agreement Task Force, he had established a strong collaboration with the United Nations University- Japan; University of Twente \u2013 Netherlands; Center for Conservation Biology of Washington University -Seattle; Sokoine University of Dar-es-Salaam, Strathmore Universities of Nairobi; Cape-town and KwaZulu Natal Universities of South Africa; in promoting science-based investigations and development of specialized tools for intelligence collection, surveillance and contraband specimens\u2019 detection systems.<\/p><p>Under his leadership, Lusaka Agreement was awarded the CITES Secretary General\u2019s Certificates of Commendation for its pivotal coordination role and great achievements during international operations code name COBRA I (2013) and COBRA II (2014).<\/p><p>Bonaventure holds a bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree in Forest Protection and Ecology from the Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies in the Russian Federation. 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