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Narcisse Uwitonze

Narcisse Uwitonze was born on August, 30th 1991 in Rwanda, a small tropical country with unparalleled biodiversity in Africa. Narcisse is an environmental and natural resources researcher with ample experience in hands-on conservation. He majored in biodiversity conservation for his undergraduate studies(2012-2016) at the University of Rwanda, from which I graduated with first-class honors in Botany and Conservation. After graduation in 2016, he worked on several projects including, Integrated Landscape surveys and Monitoring at the ARCOS network, biodiversity survey at Nyungwe National Park buffer zone. In 2018, he got a competitive National Geographic grant to the projectRegeneration time of key gorilla food and its implication to mountain gorilla conservation. This was in collaboration between him and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. In 2019, he received a highly competitive scholarship (Wageningen University Fellowship Program) from Wageningen University to do his Master in Forest and Nature conservation program. He is in the second phase of his Master's program.

Positon he held in his lifetime:

2011-2012: Teacher at PS Gatongati 2016-2019: Collaborator(Researcher), at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, Karisoke Research Center, Collaborator(Researcher), Albertin Rift Conservation Society, ARCOS network. 2019-Now: A Master student in Forest and Nature Conservation at Wageningen University and Research