#MYBIOSPHERE: Pierre Cherimont

The Biosphere Isle of Man team are delighted to welcome Pierre Cherimont for a research placement as part of his Master’s degree in Biosphere Reserve Management.

Pierre will be working closely with the Biosphere delivery team, University College Isle of Man, and a variety of Stakeholders and Partners to contribute to the development of a management plan for Biosphere Isle of Man. Pierre’s Master's degree is based on the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme, covering the conceptual, historical, institutional and contractual aspects specific to protected areas associated with human activities.

Pierre writes about himself and what he hopes to achieve during his time here:

My name is Pierre Cherimont and I’m here today in the Biosphere Isle of Man to accomplish my 6 months placement in order to obtain my “Man and Biosphere” master’s degree at the University of Toulouse in France.

I’ve been living in France but I’m originally from Reunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean. I came in Europe for my studies, to open up myself to different opportunities for my professional career and to discover new horizons.

After a long ecology courses I understood that to create a sustainable future and improve our life and living condition we need to involve local people mainly by meeting them and explaining their role in their environment / ecosystem.
For me, this permitted to create bottom-up projects so that is why I decided to go in the MAB master’s degree to learn more about the values of the “Man and Biosphere” program by UNESCO. So I can’t wait to see how the sustainable development is engaged here in the Island and meeting the main local stakeholders and partners here, seeing and understanding all the projects that have been put in place here to have a sustainable future.

I have a special attraction with Celtic and Vikings culture and this island entirely designated as a Biosphere Reserve is the perfect context to know more about all these stories.

Next to that I love passing time and doing hiking in beautiful landscape especially in forests. Moreover, I’m a one man band, I’m playing piano, guitar, bass, drums and I learn to produce myself because in doing some mix and mastering engineering for music’s production.

Thanks for this great opportunity to see how another Biosphere reserve out of France works, allow myself to develop my English skills and discover the culture and the landscapes of the Isle of Man! Looking forward to see how this new adventure will take place.