Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina
Degree on Environmental Sciences (University of Salvador, Argentina) Postgraduate Dip in Applied Sciences (Lincoln University, New Zealand). She works at Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina, as a Restoration and Community Specialist and coordinates the Atlantic Forest Restoration Project that includes reforestation actions of degraded areas to improve the connectivity of the remaining Atlantic Forest patches, improvement of the livelihoods of the rural families with whom it works, development of local capacities for empowerment of rural communities, among several other aspects. She is a liaison for issues of “Misiones Forest Landscape Restoration” and issues of “Social Development for Conservation/Environmental and Social Safegards Framework” within the WWF Network. She is a member of the Steering Group of the Trinational Alliance for the Atlantic Forest Restoration that brings together institutions from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
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