Hi, my name is Manka Grace but you can call me Green Grace if you want. I am passionate about the environment, especially wildlife. My passion for wildlife started in 2013 at the Limbe Wildlife Center where I volunteer as a tour guide. At the center, I educated visitors on the importance of wildlife. I also fed the gorillas, chimpanzees, and drills found at the center. After working with animals in captivity I decided to have an experience of what it takes to work with animals in the wild.
My first experience in the wild was in the Tofala Hills Wildlife Sanctuary (THWS). The THWS is one of Cameroon's biodiversity hotspot hosting the Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla and the Nigerian Cameroon chimpanzee. The THWS is managed by the Cameroon government and Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) (my former place of work). At ERuDeF I worked as a junior wildlife biologist and later as an assistant research officer. As an assistant researcher office, I led the bio-monitoring team to collect data on Gorillas and Chimpanzees every 15 days of each month. During our bio-monitoring tour in the forest, we will occasionally sit under the rainforest canopy and watch chimpanzees and monkeys jump from tree to tree. The sit and watch moments were remarkable moments that will always stay on my mind.
Also as a research assistant, I got the opportunity to conduct research on the largest frog species called the goliath frog. I was part of a team that research on its distribution on one of Cameroon's mountain hosting the largest population in Cameroon. This mountain is called Mt Nlonako found in the Littoral region.
To move another step up the career ladder, I got another job as Content Creator with a organization called The Kedjom-Keku Association (Czech NGO) in August 2018. The Kedjom-Keku Association is conservation NGO working to save the biodiversity of the Bamenda Highlands, especially around the Abongphen Highland forest in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. The main activity of my new job entails writing environmental articles to sensitize the world around us on the environmental hazard the earth is facing and the dangers of human action to the environment and also to train all members of Kedjom-Keku CASUD (Cameroonian branch of the Czech NGO) to increase our awareness-raising effort.
As the content creator for Kedjom-Keku Association, my job entails reading so many scientific and nonscientific articles. Doing this is helping me to identify new research gaps. As an organization, we are working to seek funding to conduct research and fill these gaps. When we must have gotten the funds to carry out the identified research projects, then I am going to continue with my research field of activities again.
I am going to use my experience and knowledge to bring new ideas to add to the conservation effort in Kedjom-Keku and other parts of Bamenda Highlands as well as participating in all conservation activities at the same place.
You can read more of me on @treeplanter’s blog
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Oh yea, I have upvoted you and followed you. Many blessings!
Thanks and I'm happy you upvoted my post.
Welcome @manka, glad to finally see you here. I get faith, together we can fight deforestation and unsustainable development to keep our wildlife on our planet.
Thank you. As a team we can make the world a better place.
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Welcome to STEEM @manka! A great place to be :)
I love the positive impact this platform has on the world with initiatives like @treeplanter! Keep up the great work.
Thank you.
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ok I will check it out
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I'm so glad to meet you and be part of the @forestfriendly family and the @treeplanter project.
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I will be able to help more #minnows
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hello Green Grace aka @manka ! :)
Welcome in the Steemit family !
bravo for your introduction post ;) I really like and respect your motivation, you're the kind of people we need in the world to know it and preserve it !
See you very soon !
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Thank you and see you too soonest
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you're most welcome dear @manka !
I will follow your progression :) I'm passionate with earth and nature protection !
thanks for your answer !
welcome to steemit and thank you for tell us your history and thank you very much for care the environmentally. we really need more people like you. Grettings from Colombia.
Thank you very much am happy you liked my story ...Greetings from Cameroon.
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Hi, @manka, and welcome to Steemit. You will soon discover how to move around but I wanted to say that the steemit community is very nice and welcoming and I am sure you will accumulate followers and get great feedback on your posts very soon. I'll be following you from now on. Good luck!
Thank you. You can also read my post @kedjom-keku and @treeplanter.
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Hello broo welcome go steemit
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Welcome to steemit brother. nice to meet you.
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Hello Manka and welcome to Steemit.
You are a Steemian now! And your first blog is online. Better late than never, and I'm sure one day we will say those were the very early days of Steemit, so congrats!
Invironment and wildlife are great to blog about.
Whats essential here is regular posting off good quality blogs.
So start writing ! Tell us about your life, passion, animals or your work.
That Will attract possible followers.
Do be carefull with your passwords, they are yours and yours only.
Look up the free Steemify app in the Appstore Thats helpfull too.
Hope this helps for now. Good luck, and Full Steem Ahead!
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Thank you and am grateful for the advice.
@manka
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You are offcourse very welcome
Welcome to this great platform my dear
Thank you very much
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Love your smile and I love eating from my gardens.
Thank you and you got a beautiful smile too.
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Wow.
Hi and Welcome
Thank you.
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You just planted 0.13 tree(s)!
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We have planted already 3496.05 trees
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Thank you. it really a pleasure to be a steemian and thanks again for the reminder and advice. I'm grateful.
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