Biodiversity Project Manager / Ecologist / Ornithologist
Simon Cavaillès is an ecologist specializing in fauna and flora inventories and monitoring, with 15 years of professional experience abroad, particularly in Africa. Passionate naturalist, he has trained through his various personal, professional and associative experiences in contact with experienced biologists and naturalists in many European countries, Central Asia and Africa. He graduated with a Master's degree from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He is passionate about nature conservation issues in Africa and contributes to the development of knowledge on the biology and distribution of bird species in West Africa.
If ornithology is his core business, Simon now supervises biodiversity studies in their entirety within Oryx by creating methodologies, coordinating field inventories and participating in the drafting of various study reports, from biodiversity inventories to ESIAs, ESMPs and BAPs. He is familiar with the study techniques of the taxonomic groups usually studied in the framework of regulatory studies: mammals, reptiles and amphibians, aquatic fauna, botany and is interested in entomology through the study of Syrphidae diptera.
Simon has been working for 7 years in Africa on projects following international environmental standards, notably IFC/IFC Performance Standard 6. In addition to basic fauna and flora studies, Simon is involved in specific studies of priority species for conservation and critical habitats, including Great Apes (chimpanzee and gorilla population size estimates, population monitoring, etc.).
Expert Hydrologist
Dr. Thiaw holds a PhD in Surface Hydrology and a Master's degree in Resources, Environment and Development. He is also a Consultant in Hydro-Climatology, Cartography and Urban and Rural Economics. In addition to his activities as a teacher-researcher at the University, he is a consultant for Oryx in the framework of our environmental and social impact studies on the African continent through the management of hydrological studies for which he is in charge of field missions, mapping/GIS, modelling and reporting.
His leadership and high level experience in his field of choice make him an essential resource to carry out the activities entrusted to him and to bring real added value to Oryx studies for the hydrology and risk management component, in particular through the modelling of flows and floods.
Expert ecologist - Camera trap - Database management
Ibrahima is a Guinean expert, a water and forestry engineer, specialized in wildlife. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in biological inventories conducted as part of ESIAs and BMPs of mining projects or other infrastructures (dams, photovoltaic sites, roads, ports, logging concessions, etc.) in Africa. He has worked on major mining projects such as Simandou, Nimba, GAC, CBG, Alufer, AMC, Humingbird, SRG Graphite, etc., but also in Senegal on the perimeters of the gold mining permits of Boto, Sabodala and Massawa, in Gabon on logging concessions, as well as in various French-speaking African countries.
As a staff member of Oryx, he conducts field surveys on mammals with a specialization on great apes, camera trapping and genetic analysis. He has an excellent approach to the field and an ability to supervise teams in difficult geographical contexts. He is an important internal resource for complex missions in forest areas in particular.
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