I’m a Conservation Scientists and independent consultant interested in ecology and the conservation of wildlife. Several times i carried out international and national projects in eastern Africa, particularly in mountain forests. I have skills on elaborating the Local Plan for Development as well as the elaborating of the Simple Plan for Management of the Community Forest, the analyses of socioecomic activities around APs and the designing of qualitative and quantitative tools for data collection. Additionally, I have proficient on writing proposals for biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of natural resources as well as REDD+ projects I have background in Forestry and Msc in Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife at the Manchester Metropolitan University and the College of African wildlife Management Mweka. I have 7 years of experience in Forestry; Restoration of degraded landscape; ecology and conservation of wildlife, local development; ethnobotany; project design management and evaluation, climate change mitigation and Socioeconomic analyses. Currently I’m a Fellowship of Smithsonia Tropical Research Institute/ForesGeo in charge too review the global assessment of potential human interventions to reduce forest biomass losses and mitigate climate change and member of IUCN Red list/Special Group cat to review the status of African Golden Cat. Recently I contributed to elaborate the land use plan of 20 villages in in Bakwange and Wakabango in the Maniema Province, Project funded by the PIREDD/GIZ. As a researcher currently Rodrigue is working on the distribution of medium to large ground-dwelling mammal in the Minziro forest Reserve in Tanzania: Using camera trapping Funded by the College of African Wildlife Management Mweka. Beside this Rodrigue is a Researcher Assistant on the Lightning in African tropical forests: from tree mortality to carbon dynamics/Project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and carry out by Metropolitan Manchester University. In 2022 he was a fellowship of JRS Foundation Fellowship of JRS Biodiversity Foundation/Oxford University; training in Biodiversity data analysis at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway In 2022 he carried out study of Remote sensing assessment of land use changes and consultations with local partners on drivers of deforestation around PNKB (Kahuzi Biega National Park) and PNVi ( Virunga National Park) funded by FARM AFRICA in partnership with CAFI. In 2020 Rodrigue I conducted project on the Determining sustainable extraction rates of important timber and non-timber forest products in Lomami national park in DRC funded by the Rufford Foundation. Rodrigue is working with GIZ as consultant in the Biodiversity Maintenance and Sustainable Forest Management Program (BGF) in the DRC In 2021 I led a project focused on the Community-Based Initiative to Reduce Poaching of the African Golden Cat around Lomami National Funded by Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (MBZSCF). Three years ago he contributed to the elaborating of the Local Plan Development of the Ngweshe and Kabare Chiefdom in partnership with UNDP, GIZ as well as the Simple Plan Management of the Community Forest around the Itombwe Natural Reserve, Kahuzi Biega National Park and the Lomami National Park. I have academic background in Forestry and Water at the Université Catholique de Bukavu and a Master’s degree in African Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at The Methropolitan Manchester University (UK) and College of African Wildlife Mweka (Tanzanie). A native French speaker, I’m fluent in and French in English.