Cameroonian academic and filmmaker.

Denis NDELOH (Denis Etiendem NDELOH) is a Biologist, Anthropologist (Biological), Conservationist, Researcher, film director.

He is known for "Baka, The Wisdom of the Forest" (2024, Co-Director).


Denis N. Etiendem studied Human Ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium. His research and scholarship led to a Master of Science degree in 2008 and doctor of philosophy degree in 2013. His research focuses on traditional ecological knowledge and feeding ecology of Cross River gorillas and Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzees in the Cross-Sanagha Landscape. Etiendem is a founder of Community-Based Biosynergy Management (CBBM) a Cameroonian non-profit organisation working to foster global person-centered biosynergy through indigenous wildlife monitoring, community forestry and landscape restoration and resilience initiatives. Through CBBM Etiendem and a team of interdisciplinary experts are working with Baka hunter-gatherer communities in southeastern Cameroon to address issues of great apes conservation by conducting long-term monitoring in unprotected forests outside the Dja Forest Reserve-a world heritage site with the goal of developing indigenous-led biocultural conservation strategies. In Canada, Etiendem works for the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) as Director of Wildlife. The NWMB is an administrative tribunal established by Article 5 of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement to ensure that the management of wildlife takes into consideration Inuit rights of harvest. Etiendem leads a team of four biologists who support the Board's decision-making processes concerning the management of culturally significant species under territorial and federal jurisdiction (bowhead whales, narwhals, beluga whales, migratory birds, polar bear, caribou, muskoxen), in the Canadian Arctic.

Professional
History at National Geographic
2018 Grantee, 2014 Grantee

Scientific Disciplines
Biologist, Anthropologist (Biological)

Technical Disciplines
Conservationist, Researcher

Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
► Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
► https://ca.linkedin.com/in/denis-ndeloh-etiendem-3ab42053
► Programme du Festival Cannes Riviera 2025
Updated by Thierno DIA, 04 August 2025