About Us

Staff

Louis Nkonyu is the WCS Conservation Education Coordinator working in the Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park, Nigeria. Louis established the Okwangwo Conservation Society in 2004 and has been working for WCS since 2006. Louis holds a Nigerian Certificate in Education and in 2008 Louis completed an advanced training course in conservation education with WCS at the Bronx Zoo through the WCS Conservation Education Fellows Program. In 2010 Louis completed the first ever WCS online course in Conservation Biology. He is currently studying for his B.Ed. in Environmental Education at the University of Calabar. The main focus of his work is encouraging support for conservation among local communities.

Onajite Henrietta Okagbare has a B.Sc. in Forestry and Wildlife Management from the University of Port Harcourt and an M.Sc. in Wildlife Management from the University of Ibadan. She is currently working as the WCS Socio-economic Assistant in the Oban Division of Cross River National Park and is also studying for a Ph.D in Wildlife Management at the University of Ibadan. Her hobbies are reading and bird watching.