US EditionRwandan awarded for saving grey crowned cranes
- Veterinarian Olivier Nsengimana received the 2025 Whitley Gold Award for saving Rwanda's grey crowned cranes and their habitat.
- Nsengimana founded the Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association in 2015 to address habitat loss and illegal capture that caused drastic crane population declines.
- The association rehabilitates captive cranes, supports 75 community rangers, and creates local jobs to reduce marshland damage.
- Thanks to these efforts, crane numbers soared from 300 in 2012 to 1,293 in 2022, stabilizing a species symbolic of healthy wetlands.
- The recovery suggests regional conservation can reverse wetland bird declines, though further efforts remain crucial to prevent future losses.
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ecotopical.comRwanda’s Olivier Nsengimana inspires protection for gray crowned cranes in East Africa
Just 10 years ago, spotting a gray crowned crane in Rwanda’s wetlands had become a rarity. These elegant birds — tall and statuesque, with golden plumes fanning from their heads — once flourished across East Africa. But by the middle of the last decade, their numbers in Rwanda had collapsed drastically. “It shocked me,” says Olivier Nsengimana, a Rwandan veterinarian and conservationist who founded the Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association (R…
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Rwandan awarded for saving grey crowned cranes
White wings flashing overhead in the sunlight, conservationist Olivier Nsengimana points out Rwanda's grey crowned cranes, migratory birds that have made an extraordinary comeback in the Great Lakes region.
Rwanda’s Dr Olivier Nsengimana Wins 2025 Whitley Gold Award to Lead Protection for Grey Crowned Crane and its Wetland Habitat Across East Africa
Rwanda’s Dr Olivier Nsengimana Wins 2025 Whitley Gold Award to Lead Protection for Grey Crowned Crane and its Wetland Habitat Across East Africa TOP AFRICA NEWS TOPAFRICANEWSLondon, 30 April: UK charity, the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN), is recognising Dr Olivier Nsengimana... The post Rwanda’s Dr Olivier Nsengimana Wins 2025 Whitley Gold Award to Lead Protection for Grey Crowned Crane and its Wetland Habitat Across East Africa first appeared o…
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