Field Interests
Janneman is a microlight pilot and a drone operator and has used these skills to develop the organization’s aerial surveillance work along the southern coastline. He conducts wildlife censuses and marine megafauna transects, offering our researchers a new perspective and enabling them to capture abundance and distribution data more effectively. Janneman also helps the team to run logistics and conduct complex fieldwork along the Mozambican coastline and abroad. As a professional cameraman and cinematographer he also helps to shoot media for MMF so they can disseminate their findings globally and share their important research with the world.
Education
Janneman did his undergraduate degree in South Africa and received a bachelors of science degree from the University of South Africa in Environmental Management and Zoology.
Biography
Janneman grew up in the Western Cape of South Africa. Living by the sea he has been freediving his entire life, a hobby that quickly developed into a passion for SCUBA diving. That led him to get his commercial diving license in 2008 but he shortly changed tact after receiving his degree. Knowing he wanted to become a marine conservationist, he moved to southern Mozambique, an area he had visited as a child.
He quickly became a pioneering marine explorer in Mozambique, but stopped short when he arrived in Vilanculos. Completely blown away by the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, Janneman immediately decided to dedicate his life to protection of the Bazaruto Seascape. Over the years he has developed a relationship with the Park’s administration offering his skills, particularly as a pilot, to assist with anti-poaching efforts and surveillance of the Park’s remote boarders.
Seeing the encroaching threats to the north and the south, Janneman has worked tirelessly to develop extensions and buffer zones around the National Park. Ultimately he teamed up with the Marine Megafauna Foundation, an organization that was co-founded by his now wife, Dr. Andrea Marshall, and helped them extend their operations to this region in 2012.
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