Céleste spent seven years as a science correspondent for a Kigali-based English-language publication before moving fully into conservation storytelling. Her beat was always the same: what actually happens on the ground when a government, an NGO, and a farming community share a fence line.
She has reported from every sector of Volcanoes National Park and written extensively about the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Center and the practical outcomes of Rwanda's revenue-sharing programme — the school classroom built in Kinigi, the medical clinic that opened in Musanze district. For Céleste, conservation is arithmetic before it is sentiment.
At Arrive Africa Safaris she writes the conservation context woven through our Rwanda itineraries, and occasionally joins small-group departures to Nyungwe to update her notes on the chimpanzee habituation programme there. She is a founding member of the Rwanda Environmental Journalists Network and teaches one semester a year at the University of Rwanda.