2024 Whitley Award winner Dr Aristide Takoukam Kamla joins Priscilla Koinange on BBC Focus on Africa TV
2024 Whitley Award winner Dr Aristide Takoukam Kamla spoke to BBC Focus on Africa TV in London about his work to fight an invasive Salvinia molesta species in Cameroon’s Lake Ossa that was impacting African manatees. The weed is native to Brazil, not Africa, and fighting it involved importing a natural predator, from the U.S. Thank you Priscilla Koinange, Andre Lombard and the team at BBC Africa for drawing attention to the global solutions for biodiversity that our 2024 winners are pioneering.
