WWF Staff in French Guiana (La Guyane)

Laurent Kelle Regional Marine Turtle Coordinator, holds an MSc in ecotoxicology. After having worked on various naturalist field inventories, and spent one year studying pesticides' pollution on raptors in Paris (France), he joined the Kawana project in 1997, as a volunteer.

Since this time, he gradually became more and more involved in the WWF marine turtle program ; at first as the Kawana project coordinator (1998/1999), then as a Marine Turtle program officer (2000/2002), and since 2003, as the WWF regional coordinator for this program. He has been recently invited to join the UICN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialists Group.

Yesenia Cervigon, Office Coordinator Assistant of WWF French Guiana - She graduated in economics and administration at the Catholic University of Ecuador. She was working on research for economic projects, accounting and income taxes preparation before joining the WWF.

She has been working with WWF since January 2002 and her duties are help the coordinator and the program officers with the financial and administrative activities.