Marie-Cakupewa FUNDIKO

Marie-Cakupewa Fundiko is a Congolese expert specialising in ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Marie-Cakupewa is the director of the DRCC Foundation and Co-founder of the Kivu Ethnobotanical Garden (JEBK RDC), an institution dedicated to the preservation of local plants and sustainable development.

Senior lecturer at the University of Cinquantenaire in Lwiro and at the Official University of Bukavu, frequently collaborates with the Lwiro Centre for Research in Natural Sciences (CRSN) as an associate researcher, her work focuses in particular on the inventory of medicinal plants and the vulnerability of flora to climate change in the Kivu region.