Sabrina Krief

PRIMATOLOGIST, VETERINARIAN AND PROFESSOR, NATIONAL MUSÉUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, FRANCE

She is a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. She is a veterinarian by training and has been studying wild chimpanzees in Uganda for over 20 years. In 2006, she and her husband, Jean-Michel Krief, founded the association Projet pour la Conservation des Grands Singes (PCGS) to protect great apes and their ecosystem, the tropical forest, from the threats they face. Together they run the Sebitoli Chimpanzee Research and Conservation Station in Uganda. They created the Sebitoli Chimpanzee Project, which is made up of researchers, students and 25 Ugandan research assistants.

Sabrina Krief's scientific work focuses on the diet, health and self-medication of great apes, but also on the resilience of great apes and tropical forests to human activities (pollution, fragmentation of the tropical forest, poaching, etc.). Today, she leads the MNHN's "Forest, Wildlife, People in Uganda" programme (www.forest-fauna-uganda.mnhn.fr), supported by the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM), the Nicolas Hulot Foundation for Nature and Mankind, the Prince Albert II Foundation and conducted in collaboration with Ugandan partners. PCGS and Kinome are two of the major players in the field. This project aims to reconcile sustainable agriculture and the reduction of human-wildlife conflicts in order to improve the well-being and income of local populations through the preservation of chimpanzees and elephants.