Tomas Diagne

For the mixed martial artist, see Ousmane Thomas Diagne.

Tomas Diagne is a Senegalese biologist and activist, known for his efforts toward the conservation of turtles in Africa.[1] He is the founder of the African Chelonian Institute,[2] whose purpose is "to promote the long-term conservation of turtle, tortoise and terrapin populations across the African continent".[3]

Biography

Cyclanorbis senegalensis, Senegal flapshell turtle, 2013 photo by Tomas Diagne

Diagne was born in a family that had military and civil experience, but little interest in wildlife; a love of animals helped make him a conservationist.[4] In the late 1990s, he chaired the African chapter of the Turtle Survival Alliance. An early major project (for which he was given a Rolex Award) was setting up a center in Noflaye to protect Senegal's endangered tortoises.[5] At the center (which he founded with his cousin Lamine[1]), called the Village des Tortues,[6] captured tortoises (especially the African spurred tortoise) are bred; he started it when he was 23. Diagne aimed to fill what he saw as a kind of void: people cared about larger animals, but less about reptiles like turtles and tortoises which, he said, fulfill important ecological functions, including the dissemination of tree seeds, the maintenance of seagrass meadows, and the providing of food for other animals by way of the many eggs they lay and the hatchlings that come from them.[7]

One of the threatened turtles Diagne studies is the Nubian flapshell turtle. When he was told of a carcass of that animal, he drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) across America's East Coast to retrieve it;[4] he buried it in his wife's backyard and three months later had it cleaned out so he could display the skeleton at the African Chelonian Institute in Senegal, which he founded in 2009. He said, at the time, it might be the last example of the species.[4]

Awards

In 1998, Diagne was awarded the Rolex Award for his "pioneering conservation work".[5] In 2019, the National Geographic Society gave him the Buffet Award for Leadership in Conservation in Africa.[8] That same year, he received the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa, which was given to him by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge along with US $26,000, which Diagne was going to give to the Chelonian Institute.[7]

Personal life

Diagne is married to Lucy Keith-Diagne, a biologist who studies manatees; she and Tomas co-founded the African Aquatic Conservation Fund in Senegal, which Lucy directs.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "This man is saving the African turtle". CNN. 17 February 2020.
  2. ^ Roth, Annie. "Innovator: Tomas Diagne". National Geographic. p. 32. Archived from the original on January 8, 2021.
  3. ^ "African Chelonian Institute". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Marshall, Sarah (20 November 2019). "Meet the man who has dedicated his life to saving Africa's reptiles". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Tomas Diagne: Africas turtle saviour". Rolex Awards for Enterprise. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Tomas Diagne: Co-Founder, AACF & Director, ACI". African Aquatic Conservation Fund. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  7. ^ a b c Wright, Andrew (1 December 2019). "How Did This Senegalese Scientist Meet Prince William? Turtles!". Forbes. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  8. ^ Landais, Emmanuelle (25 June 2019). "Award-winning African turtle expert Tomas Diagne talks conservation". Radio France Internationale. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

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