Elisante is a Co-founder of the Tanzania Research and Conservation Organization (TRCO). He is an MSc candidate in track of Wildlife Management at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania. He completed BSc in Wildlife Management at SUA, and joined Ruaha Carnivore Project as a research assistant, that focus on researching large carnivores ecology and mitigate human-carnivore conflicts. Currently, he is conducting study that focus on the assessment of ecosystem services of scared forests and their contribution to the sustainable development goals in the Eastern Arc Mountains. He has been involved in the exploration of the ethnozoological knowledge and attitudes of pangolins in the Tanzania’s Ruaha landscape