Natagora
Xavier Janssens
Coordinator

Bio-engineer with a passion for biodiversity, Xavier coordinated a number of projects to restore peat bogs, heaths, meadows, grasslands and rivers, before enthusiastically taking on the LIFE ArdennEislek project.
- Telephone: +32 499 40 23 48
- E-mail: xavier.janssens@natagora.be
Corentin Thomas
Project assistent

Graduated in France as a senior agricultural technician, Corentin worked for almost two years at the asbl Centre de Michamps, before being hired part-time at Natagora and part-time at Patrimoine Nature in September 2022. As part of this LIFE project, he will be mainly responsible for fieldwork, biological inventories and monitoring the reintroduction of the Marsh fritillary. He will mainly be active in the French-speaking sector of the eastern Ardennes.
- Telephone: +32 493 30 57 86
- E-mail: corentin.thomas@natagora.be
Inès Poumay
Project assistant

Trained as a bio-engineer specialising in the management of forests and natural areas, Inès has joined Natagora to take up the post of LIFE ArdennEislek project assistant in the German-speaking sector of the Eastern Ardennes.
- Telephone: +32 486863608
- E-mail: ines.poumay@natagora.be
Denis Parkinson
Project manager

Denis is a natural biologist, he has worked on several LIFE projects to restore peat bogs, heathlands, forests and rivers since 2006. As part of the LIFE ArdennEislek team, he will provide scientific supervision of the project, take part in biological inventories and monitor restoration work, mainly in the French-speaking area.
- Telephone: +32 488 51 77 37
- E-mail: denis.parkinson@natagora.be
Philippe Collas
Project manager - French-speaking area

Philippe has a bachelor's degree in agronomy and has worked for over 35 years as a project manager in Natagora's conservation department. As part of his duties, he is responsible for the network of Natagora nature reserves located in the Eastern Ardennes. Having taken part in 7 LIFE and INTERREG projects since the start of his career, he has a great deal of experience in managing these types of project and particularly in implementing actions on the ground. Philippe has been in place since the creation of all the Natagora nature reserves in this area (initiated with the Black Stork Programme in 1990), so he knows this region and the local context particularly well.
- Telephone: +32 498 30 44 46
- E-mail: philippe.collas@natagora.be
Stéphanie Terren
Project manager - German-speaking area

Stéphanie has been working in nature conservation since 2002, with a particular passion for streams, flood plains and freshwater mussels. After several years in Germany, she is delighted to be back working in East Belgium.
- Telephone: +32 484 91 16 45
- E-mail: stephanie.terren@natagora.be
Pascal Hauteclair
Scientific support - botanical monitoring

A biologist by training, Pascal has been working at Natagora since 2005. He has had a varied career with the association. He started out on an Interreg project on the Terrils and then moved on to the Réseau Nature project, which aims to develop a network of private land in favour of nature. Since 2018, he has been working in the Conservation department (Monitoring Unit), where he has provided support for several LIFE projects (LIFE in Quarries, LIFE Pays Mosan, LIFE Nardus). He is currently largely involved in applications for recognition of the reserves and provides support to the LIFE ArdennEislek team (inventories, methodology, etc.).
- Telephone: +32 486 27 46 44
- E-mail: pascal.hauteclair@natagora.be
Fondation Hëllef fir d'Natur
Alexander Rauw
Project manager

Graduated as a landscape engineer, Alexander has been working for the protection of biodiversity since 2009 and is delighted to intensify the links in species protection (fauna & flora) between the two project countries and their associations as well as offering biodiversity cross-border survival opportunities.
- Telephone: +352 26 90 81 27 46
- E-mail: a.rauw@naturemwelt.lu
natur&ëmwelt
Jean-François Maquet
Scientific support - ornithological monitoring

- Telephone: +352 29 04 04 328
- E-mail: j.maquet@naturemwelt.lu