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Héctor Fabio Ortiz Cortázar
Contador
Accountant from the Libre University of Cali, he joined the WCS organization since April 2023. Extensive experience leading accounting, tax and administrative areas, knowledge of the agricultural sector, foundations and the services sector. Always promoting the human and professional development of his work group.
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
Consultant
Pato Salcedo es el Coordinador de la Unidad de Comunicación y Divulgación de WCS Colombia.
Juan Jaramillo
Gerente de Proyecto GEF
Professional with over eight years of experience in environmental project management, international cooperation, and grant administration. Currently serving as a Grant Manager at WCS for the GEF project Integrated water management in the Putumayo-Içá River Basin. Previously, Head of Internal Control at Patrimonio Natural, overseeing donor funds from GEF, KfW, and AFD. Specialist in International Cooperation and Project Management for Development, with studies in negotiation and cooperation systems. Passionate about initiatives that drive sustainable change in vulnerable communities and ensure efficient management of environmental resources.
Laura Lizbeth Jaimes Rodríguez
Mammalian Specialist
Laura obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology from the Universidad Industrial de Santander. She did a specialization in International Wildlife Conservation in WildCRU, University of Oxford, where she explored the interaction between four Colombian mesocarnivores using co-occupancy models. More recently, she has completed an MSc in Conservation and Rural Development at the University of Kent, where she studied the factors associated with livestock depredation by jaguars and pumas in a region of the Magdalena middle. She began her work as a consultant in WCS Colombia as part of a species monitoring program, and later in gathering information on negative interactions with felines within different WCS projects. Currently, she is part of WCS and her main activities are the study of the large mammal species ecology, study and promote coexistence with predatory species in agricultural landscapes that benefit both, wildlife and rural communities.
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.

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