A scientific community built over decades.

Biologist trained at the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, with a master’s in tropical biodiversity and its conservation. She teaches plant biology at the university’s School of Biology.

Biologist trained at the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima. His research focuses mainly on Andean orchids.

Trained at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. For nearly four decades at the Smithsonian he led the National Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Sustainability. His work in Peru began in 1987.

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Herpetologist from the University of Kansas. He carried out a herpetological survey in 1983 and, from 1989, led BIOTROP, the program for the study of tropical biological diversity, with Harvard University, the Missouri Botanical Garden and San Marcos’s Natural History Museum.

Biologist with a PhD in biological sciences from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and an M.Sc. in ecology and natural resources from the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco. Author of numerous publications on wild flora.

Forest engineer from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, with a PhD in forest sciences. He specializes in agroforestry, forest mycology, the recovery of degraded areas and forest certification.

Biologist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, where she is a principal professor and former dean of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, and director of its Museum of Natural History.

Biologist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, specialized in the taxonomy and biogeography of mammals, especially rodents and bats. He heads the Department of Mammalogy at the university’s Museum of Natural History.

Biologist, mycologist and lichenologist trained at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. She heads the in vitro plant tissue culture laboratory at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.

Biologist specialized in molluscs and principal professor at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, where she has directed research and the postgraduate school.

Doctor in social anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France and a specialist in palms. Author of research on ecology, ethnobotany, the Amazon and sustainable development.

Curator of the Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú (MUBI) and associate researcher at the Natural History Museum of the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, with more than 25 years studying scarab beetles and Andean tropical butterflies.

Forest engineer from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and director of the center for wood-based composite materials at Oregon State University (USA).

Forest engineer from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.

Biologist trained at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He studies how biodiversity arises and organizes into communities, and how its changes affect the functions and services of ecosystems.