Philippe Bouch茅
Our friend and colleague Philippe Bouch茅 tragically passed away on Tuesday 5 April, as the aircraft he was piloting crashed on take-off from the La Tapoa resort in W National Park in Niger, West Africa. He leaves聽behind his wife and two children.
Having trained as a tropical veterinary in Li猫ge, Belgium, Philippe Bouch茅 worked as a researcher in game management and coordinated anti-poaching activities and wildlife inventories.
Philippe provided exceptional contributions to 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播鈥檚 mission in the region, starting in 2000 as a technical coordinator of the aerial wildlife inventory in the Arly Conservation Unit, now part of the W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP)聽Complex, in Burkina Faso. He went on to be 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播's聽expert for the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播-CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme between 2001 and 2004. Philippe re-joined 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 in July 2016, in the last phase of the project Minimising the Illegal Killing of Elephants and other Endangered Species聽(MIKES), having worked as a consultant for a large number of conservation initiatives throughout Africa, often piloting himself or conducting聽aerial surveys on board his ultralight aircraft. The WAP, a transboundary conservation complex in West Africa, and flying, were a big part of his life.
Recognised as a prominent elephant expert in the region, Philippe聽was strongly committed to the fight against poaching. To this end, he trained over 200 conservation professionals in the use of modern tools for data collection, surveillance techniques and聽monitoring illegal elephant killings. Most recently, he was working to establish聽an innovative, cross-sectoral collaboration between security and surveillance actors around the WAP Complex.
Philippe published numerous articles including and . Philippe also wrote the聽, published in聽Pachyderm No. 42.
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 wishes to extend its deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to Philippe鈥檚 family and loved ones.