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Muaule Chuluma
Project Assistant at WCS
Muaule Chuluma serves as Project Assistant at WCS.
Muaule Tadeu Chuluma completed her Masters in Conservation Biology in Gorongosa National Park, before beginning her journey in the Environmental Protection Area of Primeiras e Segunda Islands (APAIPS), where she interned for nine months in the Marine Biology Sector. During her work at APAIPS, she coordinated the elaboration of the proposal of strategic activities for the management of the Icuria dunensis forest in the district of Pebane, Province of Zambézia, supervised nine Natural Resources Management Committees and six Community Fisheries Councils in the district of Angoche , Nampula Province. She also supported the technical teams in collecting data within the scope of the Study of the Dynamics of Artisanal Fisheries, Biology and Assessment of the State of Exploitation of Target Species in the District of Angoche, through the Project Co-Management of the Primeiras e Segundas Environmrntal Protection Area, implemented by InOM in partnership with WWF, Community Surveys within the scope of the Study on Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK), economic and sociocultural importance of marine species, as well as monitoring data on capture and accidental fishing of sharks and rays.
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Muaule Chuluma
Project Assistant at WCS
Muaule Chuluma serves as Project Assistant at WCS.
Muaule Tadeu Chuluma completed her Masters in Conservation Biology in Gorongosa National Park, before beginning her journey in the Environmental Protection Area of Primeiras e Segunda Islands (APAIPS), where she interned for nine months in the Marine Biology Sector. During her work at APAIPS, she coordinated the elaboration of the proposal of strategic activities for the management of the Icuria dunensis forest in the district of Pebane, Province of Zambézia, supervised nine Natural Resources Management Committees and six Community Fisheries Councils in the district of Angoche , Nampula Province. She also supported the technical teams in collecting data within the scope of the Study of the Dynamics of Artisanal Fisheries, Biology and Assessment of the State of Exploitation of Target Species in the District of Angoche, through the Project Co-Management of the Primeiras e Segundas Environmrntal Protection Area, implemented by InOM in partnership with WWF, Community Surveys within the scope of the Study on Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK), economic and sociocultural importance of marine species, as well as monitoring data on capture and accidental fishing of sharks and rays.
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Nilton Cuna
Tourism Manager
Nilton Cuna Studied Tourism Management at the Eduardo Mondlane University - Mozambique. His interest in conservation began with his flower culture business and was complemented in Bazaruto National Park and Niassa Reserve. Nilton has worked in Niassa National Reserve with the previous NNR management authority (SGDRN), first in the Community Assistance Program, then as the Logistics Department Manager, and he also assisted the tourism monitoring program. Nilton started with WCS Mozambique in late 2012 and helped to establish the country program and the Maputo Office and support the Niassa Reserve Program as the Logistics and Procurement Manager for the country program. In July 2018 Nilton returned to Niassa Reserve in an important step up to lead the WCS team managing this unique and spectacular reserve as Program Director.
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Nilton Cuna
Tourism Manager
Nilton Cuna Studied Tourism Management at the Eduardo Mondlane University - Mozambique. His interest in conservation began with his flower culture business and was complemented in Bazaruto National Park and Niassa Reserve. Nilton has worked in Niassa National Reserve with the previous NNR management authority (SGDRN), first in the Community Assistance Program, then as the Logistics Department Manager, and he also assisted the tourism monitoring program. Nilton started with WCS Mozambique in late 2012 and helped to establish the country program and the Maputo Office and support the Niassa Reserve Program as the Logistics and Procurement Manager for the country program. In July 2018 Nilton returned to Niassa Reserve in an important step up to lead the WCS team managing this unique and spectacular reserve as Program Director.
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Americo Sarmento
HR Manager
Americo Sarmento serves as HR Manager at Niassa Special Reserve.
Americo Sarmento completed his degree in business management and specialization in Strategic Human Resource Management. In addition to his teaching career, Américo Sarmento began his professional career working at CFM – Port and railway company as human resource generalist. Then, from 2005 to 2014, he worked at Vale Mozambique in the human resources area where, among various duties, he was a training and development manager
In 2015 he started working at CDN - Northern Development Corridor where, in addition to being responsible for the training and development process, he was also responsible for the recruitment and selection process. In 2017 until May 2019 he started to work at Heineken Mozambique where he was performance and organizational development Manager.
From June 2019 to February 2020 was working and human resource consultant at Atittude and from March 2020 he started to work for WCS, based in Niassa Special Reserve.
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Americo Sarmento
HR Manager
Americo Sarmento serves as HR Manager at Niassa Special Reserve.
Americo Sarmento completed his degree in business management and specialization in Strategic Human Resource Management. In addition to his teaching career, Américo Sarmento began his professional career working at CFM – Port and railway company as human resource generalist. Then, from 2005 to 2014, he worked at Vale Mozambique in the human resources area where, among various duties, he was a training and development manager
In 2015 he started working at CDN - Northern Development Corridor where, in addition to being responsible for the training and development process, he was also responsible for the recruitment and selection process. In 2017 until May 2019 he started to work at Heineken Mozambique where he was performance and organizational development Manager.
From June 2019 to February 2020 was working and human resource consultant at Atittude and from March 2020 he started to work for WCS, based in Niassa Special Reserve.
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Jose Filimao Sitoe
Law Enforcement Officer
Jose Filimao Sitoe serves as Law Enforcement Officer at WCS.
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Jose Filimao Sitoe
Law Enforcement Officer
Jose Filimao Sitoe serves as Law Enforcement Officer at WCS.
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Sebastiao Tome Saize
LE Operations
Sebastiao Tome Saize serves as LE Operations at WCS.
Sebas has been with WCS Mozambique since late 2012, first as an assistant instructor in Niassa Reserve, and more recently as the Chief Scout. He previously worked at Gorongosa National Park where he was responsible for law enforcement in the wildlife sanctuary.
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Sebastiao Tome Saize
LE Operations
Sebastiao Tome Saize serves as LE Operations at WCS.
Sebas has been with WCS Mozambique since late 2012, first as an assistant instructor in Niassa Reserve, and more recently as the Chief Scout. He previously worked at Gorongosa National Park where he was responsible for law enforcement in the wildlife sanctuary.
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Cipriano Martinho
Conservation Agriculture & Food Security Officer
Cipriano Martinho serves as Community sustainable development manager at WCS.
Cipriano Martinho is a Mozambican with a Master's degree in Soil and Water Management, emphasis on Environmental Agrobiology, from the Public University of Navarra, in Spain since 2012.
Agronomist with more than 25 years of experience, he has a long professional history in the programs implementation related to the transfer of agricultural technologies, research for development, agribusiness, associations, agricultural input markets and inclusive marketing, agricultural technologies resilient to climate change and promotion of sustainable livelihoods in communities.
Having worked during these years with national and international NGOs, the public and private sector in central and northern Mozambique, helped Cipriano to build a large network of horizontal and vertical professionals, an important factor in promoting partnerships.
However, he has successfully explored community development project management tools, team leadership, development project design, strategic planning for lobbying and advocacy for small farmers. In fact, before joining the WCS team in the Niassa Special Reserve, he identified himself with the promotion of local initiatives for the development and diffusion of skills for small farmers in the context of sustainable livelihoods, in line with the legislation that regulates community rights in land and natural resource areas.
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Cipriano Martinho
Conservation Agriculture & Food Security Officer
Cipriano Martinho serves as Community sustainable development manager at WCS.
Cipriano Martinho is a Mozambican with a Master's degree in Soil and Water Management, emphasis on Environmental Agrobiology, from the Public University of Navarra, in Spain since 2012.
Agronomist with more than 25 years of experience, he has a long professional history in the programs implementation related to the transfer of agricultural technologies, research for development, agribusiness, associations, agricultural input markets and inclusive marketing, agricultural technologies resilient to climate change and promotion of sustainable livelihoods in communities.
Having worked during these years with national and international NGOs, the public and private sector in central and northern Mozambique, helped Cipriano to build a large network of horizontal and vertical professionals, an important factor in promoting partnerships.
However, he has successfully explored community development project management tools, team leadership, development project design, strategic planning for lobbying and advocacy for small farmers. In fact, before joining the WCS team in the Niassa Special Reserve, he identified himself with the promotion of local initiatives for the development and diffusion of skills for small farmers in the context of sustainable livelihoods, in line with the legislation that regulates community rights in land and natural resource areas.
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Sonia Manjate
Accountant
Sonia Manjate serves as Accountant at Niassa Special Reserve.
Sonia Manjate complete tecnicall accountant school in Lichinga, worked all professional life us account in differenty company ONG and privant Companys.
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Sonia Manjate
Accountant
Sonia Manjate serves as Accountant at Niassa Special Reserve.
Sonia Manjate complete tecnicall accountant school in Lichinga, worked all professional life us account in differenty company ONG and privant Companys.
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Alberto Muchanga
Intelligence Database Analyst
Alberto Muchanga serves as Intelligence Database Analyst at WCS.
Alberto Muchanga completed his degree in Forest Engineering at Lurio University and before he joined the Conservation program he was coordinating in a national dissemination program of Irish potato varieties in six agro-ecologic zones in Mozambique. Thus, there were challenges in making the decision to officially register these varieties in full and to be included in the list of varieties grown in the country. He later joined the Niassa Special Reserve (NSR) an Analyst with WCS Niassa Program helping to maintain, develop and keep secure an intelligence database and management system so as to support Law Enforcement operations, investigations and court cases by analyzing and supplying the necessary information. In an area as large as NSR, success in combatting wildlife crime requires an intelligence led law enforcement operations. His role is to collate, manage and analyze all information relating to wildlife crimes affecting NSR, which will be used to inform more targeted and effective law enforcement operations.
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Alberto Muchanga
Intelligence Database Analyst
Alberto Muchanga serves as Intelligence Database Analyst at WCS.
Alberto Muchanga completed his degree in Forest Engineering at Lurio University and before he joined the Conservation program he was coordinating in a national dissemination program of Irish potato varieties in six agro-ecologic zones in Mozambique. Thus, there were challenges in making the decision to officially register these varieties in full and to be included in the list of varieties grown in the country. He later joined the Niassa Special Reserve (NSR) an Analyst with WCS Niassa Program helping to maintain, develop and keep secure an intelligence database and management system so as to support Law Enforcement operations, investigations and court cases by analyzing and supplying the necessary information. In an area as large as NSR, success in combatting wildlife crime requires an intelligence led law enforcement operations. His role is to collate, manage and analyze all information relating to wildlife crimes affecting NSR, which will be used to inform more targeted and effective law enforcement operations.
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Valdemar Jonasse
Ecological and LE Monitoring Coordinator
Valdemar Jonasse serves as SMART Technician at WCS.
Valdemar Jonasse, graduated in Forest Engineering from Lúrio University - Mozambique. Joined WCS - NNR at the end of 2016 as a SMART Technician.
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Valdemar Jonasse
Ecological and LE Monitoring Coordinator
Valdemar Jonasse serves as SMART Technician at WCS.
Valdemar Jonasse, graduated in Forest Engineering from Lúrio University - Mozambique. Joined WCS - NNR at the end of 2016 as a SMART Technician.
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Samuell Bilério
Human Wildlife Conflict Officer
Samuell Bilério serves as Human Wildlife Mitigation conflit officer at WCS.
"Samuell Bilério, is a Mozambican National graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary, Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique.
He always had such interested in conservation, where in 2016 he attended a 4-month pre-professional internship at Gorongosa National Park, to gain more professional technical skills, in management of conservation areas in Mozambique.
During his professional career, he carried out various conservation-related activities in some of Mozambique's conservation areas such as the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta D’Ouro Partial Marine Reserve. So during the 2018-2019 season, he worked at Limpopo National Park in the Greater Limpopo Carnivore Programme-Panthera (Limpopo National Park, Mpuze Fazenda do Bravio and Banhine National Park), doing more law enforcement, wildlife technology and veterinary work for the Limpopo Lion Protection Unit, human wildlife-coexistence, Game capture, wildlife translocations.
Therefore, in 2020 he had opportunity to visit Niassa Special Reserve, doing survey for Traffic, where he increased his passion of Niassa landscape.
In July of 2020, he joined to WCS as Human Wildlife Mitigation Conflict Officer.
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Samuell Bilério
Human Wildlife Conflict Officer
Samuell Bilério serves as Human Wildlife Mitigation conflit officer at WCS.
"Samuell Bilério, is a Mozambican National graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary, Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique.
He always had such interested in conservation, where in 2016 he attended a 4-month pre-professional internship at Gorongosa National Park, to gain more professional technical skills, in management of conservation areas in Mozambique.
During his professional career, he carried out various conservation-related activities in some of Mozambique's conservation areas such as the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta D’Ouro Partial Marine Reserve. So during the 2018-2019 season, he worked at Limpopo National Park in the Greater Limpopo Carnivore Programme-Panthera (Limpopo National Park, Mpuze Fazenda do Bravio and Banhine National Park), doing more law enforcement, wildlife technology and veterinary work for the Limpopo Lion Protection Unit, human wildlife-coexistence, Game capture, wildlife translocations.
Therefore, in 2020 he had opportunity to visit Niassa Special Reserve, doing survey for Traffic, where he increased his passion of Niassa landscape.
In July of 2020, he joined to WCS as Human Wildlife Mitigation Conflict Officer.
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