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Isabel Estrada
Project Management Specialist
Isabel is an Environmental Administrator from Universisdad Tecnológica de Pereira. For the past eleven years she has been working to WCS Colombia. Among other positions, he has served as a financial manager (she did so for about six years). At the begining she participated in the GAINS strategy. Also, she was part of the teams to new protected areas, species and strengthening of the WCS program in general. More recently, she manages several projects related to species (mainly amphibians and turtles), biodiversity monitoring and the Proyecto Vida Silvestre –PVS-; with emphasis on technical and financial monitoring of projects with public and private resources. Her academic interests are relate to linking the social context within conservation actions. Also practice diving and hiking.
Itma Selene Torres Rodríguez
Líder Restauración
She is a biologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a master's degree in Environmental Management from the Universidad de los Andes. She works in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of restoration and conservation projects in different ecosystems in Colombia, such as paramos, tropical dry forests, savannas and Andean forests. She has also worked in the evaluation of management plans related to National Protected Forest Reserves and the formulation of their use regime. Currently, he leads the technical and operational aspects of all national projects related to WCS restoration.
Jennifer Chávez Zapata
Especialista Procesos Sociales
Jennifer is a Social Worker from Universidad del Valle, recognized for her passion and commitment in the development of her activities as a collaborator. She has oriented her career in the environmental area, focusing on the management of protected areas and the accompaniment of local communities. This has allowed her to manage processes related to environmental conservation and sustainable development. Her experience includes the development of territorial planning instruments, the construction of governance schemes, support to rural communities in the search for sustainable economic alternatives, organizational strengthening, environmental education, and the design and implementation of conservation strategies. In addition, it has promoted agroecological alternatives and food sovereignty within the contexts in which it intervenes.
John Jairo Mueses Cisneros
Especialista paisaje Andino-Amazónico
Jonh is a Biologist and Master in Science-Biology from the National University of Colombia, with extensive knowledge and experience in the implementation of environmental, social and conservation research projects in Colombia, especially in Putumayo. Jonh has been supporting WCS generating the scientific and technical conditions for the consolidation of the sustainable value of meliponiculture -breeding and use of native stingless bees and their derivatives, and planning projects for the Amazon-Andes landscape.
Jorge Enrique Parra Bastos
Subdirector de Biodiversidad
Jorge joined Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Colombia in May, 2013. He currently coordinates the Protected Areas division. He is a Behavioral Ecologist and a Conservation Biologist with more than 10 years of experience working in conservation projects and research studies. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Biology from Universidad de los Andes, where he studied the social behavior of some species of birds living in the Colombian Andes, Orinoquía and Amazonia. Jorge received his PhD in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, where he investigated the evolution of reproductive strategies (mating and parental care behaviors) in three closely related shorebird species of the genus Charadrius sp. from Madagascar. Jorge is a member of the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), a partnership between Wildlife Conservation Society, Fauna & Flora International and BirdLife International, with the Chicamocha project.
José Mauricio Salcedo Cabrales
Professional in Social Communication with an emphasis on journalism from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has a Master's degree in Philosophy of Science from the Universidad Autónoma de México and a diploma in Science Communication also from UNAM. Pato is a cameraman, photographer, and video editor, and is passionate about natural resources. He is a two-time winner of the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award. He is currently the Coordinator of the Communication and Outreach Unit at WCS Colombia.
Leonor Valenzuela
Analysis and Synthesis Coordinator
Leonor joined Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Colombia in March, 2014. She is currently Analysis and Synthesis Coordinator and leads the monitoring team that works in the conservation of landscape species and their habitat and the tracking of conservation activity, compensations and decision-making, under an adaptive management framework. Leonor is a Biologist from the Universidad del Valle, where she worked with bat systematics. She obtained an MSc and a PhD in Ecology from the Universidad Católica de Chile. There she worked with biodiversity patterns of mammals in insular systems at island and archipelago level, focusing on the effect of the spatial arrangement of the islands and the implications of body size on colonization and extinction rates. Her main interests focus on the macroecology discipline, understood as the search for general principles that explain diversity, in order to apply the results to the conservation of biodiversity and, in particular, to the analysis of the conservation status of animal species.
Lina Caro
Coordinadora Paisajes Sostenibles
Lina is a biologist from the Universidad de Los Andes, where she investigated the reproductive success of the tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) and its relationship with singing. In 2008, she studied for an MSc in Ecology and Evolution at Universidad de Los Andes. Her thesis focused on the speciation patterns of the grey-breasted wood-wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) associated with elevation, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. In 2013, Lina studied for an MPhil in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge, where she designed a conservation strategy based on tourism for the Ometepe Island Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua. She is currently part of WCS’ monitoring team where she works with the conservation of landscape species and their habitat, the tracking of conservation activity (i.e. reforestation, biological corridors, work with communities), compensations and decision-making.
Lucas Buitrago Garzón
Coordinador Sostenibilidad y Finanzas
Lucas is a Political Analyst from Universidad del Rosario, Colombia and MSc in Public Policy from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He works with WCS since 2015, focusing on ecological compensation projects, conservation sustainability, tools for the application of environmental public policy and environmental economics.
Luis Felipe Salazar Arcila
Technical Specialist
Felipe is an environmental engineer from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Bogotá D.C.) and holds a master's degree in Sustainable Development from Universidad del Valle (Cali). He joined WCS at the end of 2017 as a consultant in Geographic Information Systems - GIS, providing support to land cover interpretation projects, prioritization of areas for the allocation of compensation actions and processes of administration and declaration of protected areas, among others. She currently supports planning and decision making in the line of Sustainable Landscapes. Her main research interests are geographic analysis, interdisciplinary work with local communities, wetland ecosystems, environmental history and socio-ecological systems.

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