{"id":14052,"date":"2018-10-11T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/8femmes\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:22:10","slug":"8femmes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/8femmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fondation Ensemble pays tribute to 8 heroines fighting to protect animal biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What unites them is their total commitment to the cause of animal rights. Claudine Andr\u00e9, V\u00e9ronique Audibert, C\u00e9line Danaud, Sabrina Krief, Amandine Renaud, Andrea Marshall, Claire Nouvian and Antoinette van de Water all head exemplary organizations with which the Foundation has chosen to partner. These women activists, who are regularly confronted with lobbies, poaching, trafficking and other destructive practices, deserve the utmost admiration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13862 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Claudine_Andre\u0301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Claudine_Andre\u0301.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Claudine_Andre\u0301-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Claudine Andr\u00e9 \u2013 Lola Ya Bonobo<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1993, while Kinshasa was being pillaged, Claudine went to help out at the zoo. Mikeno, a baby bonobo, was left there several months with little hope of surviving. But Claudine rose to the challenge and was determined to save him. That is how she embarked on an adventure that has never stopped. She set up an association \u2018Friends of Bonobos in Congo\u2019 and fights to this day for their protection.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>For more information: <a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lolayabonobo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.lolayabonobo.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out about the project <a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/education-reintroduction-et-protection-du-bonobo\/\">&#8216;Education, reintroduction and conservation of the Bonobo&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13865 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ve\u0301ronique_Audibert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ve\u0301ronique_Audibert.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ve\u0301ronique_Audibert-247x200.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>V\u00e9ronique Audibert \u2013 Poh Kao<\/strong><br \/>\nThis former documentary maker set up \u2018Poh Kao, Tigers and Men\u2019 to protect the Indochinese tiger. Her encounters with the ethnic communities in north-eastern Cambodia led her to find out more about the region, designated a global biodiversity hotspot. In 2017, Poh Kao was awarded a prize by the Ministry of Environment for its community conservation approach. Today, it serves as a model for upscaling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/community-forestry-and-community-patrols-for-gibbons-protection-in-the-veun-sai-siem-pang-conservation-area\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out about the project \u2018Community forestry and community patrols for gibbon protection in the Veun Sai \u2013 SiemPang National Park\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-mKb1_uTJs?cc_load_policy=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Access the Foundation\u2019s interview with Ms Audibert<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13860 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Celine_Danaud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Celine_Danaud.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Celine_Danaud-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0<strong>C\u00e9line Danaud \u2013 Projet Primate France<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018The world\u2019s great apes are fast becoming critically endangered. Guinea is at the centre of an international trafficking network and provides apes not only for the pet trade but also for circuses and a number of zoos in China. But poachers are not the only ones to blame in this story \u2013 there\u2019s a whole chain of people behind the trafficking. Projet Primates France was set up in 2005 by a handful of former volunteers at the Chimpanzee Conservation Center (CCC) to develop an infrastructure in France to help the CCC, which is located in Guinea and cut off from everything \u2026\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.especes-menacees.fr\/interview-projet-primates-france-un-bebe-orphelin-dix-adultes-morts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full interview (in French)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/improvement-of-the-chimpanzee-conservation-centers-intake-capacity-and-of-the-rehabilitation-process-for-orphaned-chimpanzees\/\">Find out about the project \u2018Improvement of the CCC\u2019s intake capacity and of the rehabilitation process for orphaned chimpanzees\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13864 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sabrina_Krief.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sabrina_Krief.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sabrina_Krief-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Sabrina Krief \u2013 sabrina-jm-krief.com<\/strong><br \/>\nA veterinary scientist and associate professor at the French National Museum of Natural History, Sabrina Krief did a doctoral thesis and post-doctoral research on the feeding behavior and chemistry of natural substances consumed by chimpanzees. \u2018In 2004, I joined the Eco-anthropology and Ethnobiology unit at the Museum, where my research focuses on chimpanzees, their health and the plants they eat. Since 2008, we have been working on the effects of human activity on the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees.\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabrina-jm-krief.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read her full biography (in French).<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out about the project &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/recenser-les-chimpanzes-les-elephants-et-les-chats-dores-victimes-de-pieges-a-sebitoli-en-ouganda-pour-mieux-les-proteger\/\">Conducting a census of the chimpanzees and other species caught in traps in Sebitoli, Uganda<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13858 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrea_Marshall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrea_Marshall.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrea_Marshall-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Andrea Marshall &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>MMF<\/strong><br \/>\nAndrea Marshall was the first person in the world to complete a PhD on manta rays. After completing her thesis in 2008, Andrea stayed on in Mozambique to spearhead the conservation efforts of this species. Along with other members of her team, she founded the Marine Megafauna Association, which grew into the now widely known Marine Megafauna Foundation. Now a global ambassador for manta rays, Andrea continues to pursue international conservation initiatives for manta rays and fight for their protection worldwide<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenofmantas.com\/about-andrea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read her whole biography<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out about the project &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/ray-of-hope-working-towards-a-comprehensive-conservation-plan-for-the-giant-manta-ray-in-ecuador\/\">Working towards a comprehensive conservation plan for the giant manta ray in Ecuador<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13861 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Claire_Nouvian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Claire_Nouvian.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Claire_Nouvian-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Claire Nouvian \u2013 Bloom<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2007 G\u00e9o magazine elected Claire Nouvian \u2018the planet\u2019s guardian angel\u2019, highlighting her commitment to protecting an environment that is little-known and vulnerable though essential to the planet\u2019s equilibrium\u2013 the deep sea. Claire founded the non-profit organization BLOOM in 2005. And in June 2016, Claire and BLOOM\u2019s small but extraordinary team were part of a coalition of organizations that obtained a ban on deep-sea bottom trawling below 800m in all European waters. This year, Claire was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, also known as the Green Nobel Prize.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomassociation.org\/en\/about-us\/the-team-at-bloom\/claire-nouvian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See her full profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out about the project &#8220;<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/programme-de-recherche-sur-les-accords-de-peche\/\">Research program on fisheries agreements<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13857 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amandine_Renaud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amandine_Renaud.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Amandine_Renaud-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Amandine Renaud \u2013 P-WAC<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2013, Amandine set up P-WAC, a rehabilitation center for primates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which takes in chimpanzees and other primates that are victims of poaching before releasing them back into the wild with the support of \u2019substitute\u2019 families. Amandine and her team are launching a women\u2019s reforestation group to regenerate the Mayombe forests, the chimpanzee\u2019s natural habitat. A primatologist, Amandine is currently working on a doctorate in natural anthropology and studying the relations between Congolese women and the great apes to gain an understanding of how best to ensure the protection of chimpanzees and their peaceful coexistence with local communities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/p-wac.org\/meet-amandine-renaud-primatologist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read her full biography <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out more about the project &#8220;<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/appui-a-un-centre-de-rehabilitation-pour-chimpanzes-orphelins-en-route-vers-la-vie-sauvage\/\">Support for a rehabilitation center for orphaned chimpanzees to be released into the wild<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13859 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antoinette_VDW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antoinette_VDW.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antoinette_VDW-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Antoinette van de Water &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bring The Elephant Home<\/strong><br \/>\nAntoinette van de Water\u2019s commitment started in 2002 during a volunteering at the Elephant Nature Park in Tha\u00efland. She fell in love with a baby elephant that had lost his mother. In Bangkok, she encountered an other youngster begging for food. \u201cThis baby had such a look of terror in his eyes that it changed the course of my life forever. It broke my heart, but I wasn\u2019t able to do anything to help this begging baby elephant\u201d. Antoinette then founded \u00ab Bring the Elephant Home \u00bb.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bring-the-elephant-home.nl\/how-it-all-began\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read her whole testimony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out more about the project &#8220;<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/projet\/vivre-en-harmonie-avec-les-elephants-aider-les-communautes-locales-a-ameliorer-la-protection-des-elephants-en-thailande\/\">Empowering local communities to live in harmony together with elephants<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What unites them is their total commitment to the cause of animal rights. Claudine Andr\u00e9, V\u00e9ronique Audibert, C\u00e9line Danaud, Sabrina Krief, Amandine Renaud, Andrea Marshall, Claire Nouvian and Antoinette van de Water all head exemplary organizations with which the Foundation has chosen to partner. These women activists, who are regularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14052\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=14052"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14052\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14052\/revisions\/14080\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondationensemble.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=14052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}