Philippe Chardonnet

Dr. Philippe Chardonnet spent the last 20 years working for CIRAD (Centre International de Recherche en Agronomie pour le Developpment), being posted in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and South America. His work takes place in developing countries and deals with different, although related, fields of activity: (i) rural development, (ii) wildlife management, (iii) wildlife/people interactions. In 2001, he joined a Paris-based NGO that is active in wildlife conservation worldwide, the International Foundation for the Conservation of Wildlife.

Some of his topics of activity have been (not necessarily in order of importance): (1) deer farming and ranching under tropical conditions; (2) rinderpest epidemiology in African wildlife; (3) training of wildlife veterinarians and wildlife rangers in Africa and Asia; (4) game meat production and game ranching on communal land in Zimbabwe; (5) sustainable use of bushmeat in Central Africa; (6) development of livestock production in Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia under emergency and post-emergency situations; (7) resolution of conflicts 'wildlife vs. people' in several countries such as Brazil (jaguar and puma) and Zimbabwe (elephant); (8) rescue operations, re- endangered taxa such as marsh deer (Brazil), kulan (Turkmenistan), northern black rhinoceros (Cameroon), Mesopotamian fallow deer (Iran), endemic South Pacific islands birds (New Caledonia); (9) improving sustainability of hunting by local communities in Central Africa, Brazilian Amazonia, New Caledonia; (10) designing new schemes of wildlife management within and outside of protected areas.