Juliana Machado Ferreira Explained
Juliana Machado Ferreira |
Birth Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
Nationality: | Brazilian |
Alma Mater: | University of São Paulo |
Known For: | Founder and executive director of Freeland Brasil |
Juliana Machado Ferreira (São Paulo, 1980) is a Brazilian scientist, a conservation geneticist, and an activist against wildlife trafficking.[1] [2] She is a founding member and current executive director of Freeland Brasil (the South American branch of the Freeland Foundation), whose mission is "to conserve biodiversity by ending wildlife trafficking"[3] through the combination of scientific research, education and awareness, and public policy.[4] She is a TED Senior Fellow.[5]
Biography and early career
Juliana Machado Ferreira was born in São Paulo (Brazil). She completed a BSc Biological Sciences, MSc and PhD Biology (Genetics) at the University of São Paulo.[6]
Contributions
Juliana started as a TED Fellow in 2009 and later became a TED Senior Fellow. She collaborated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Forensics Laboratory from 2005 to 2013,[7] was a 2014 National Geographic Emerging Explorer[8] and received the 2016 WINGS Courage Award from the organization WINGS WorldQuest. Dr. Ferreira gave a 2010 TED talk focusing on the fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil.
She founded and is Executive Director of Freeland Brasil, where she works on:
- educational efforts and awareness action to diminish the demand for wild pets and products from wildlife,
- giving support to the development of robust networks for international and regional law enforcement against wildlife trafficking, and
- carrying out scientific research in order to develop tools for its employment for law enforcement.[9]
In this way, she aims to establish an independent laboratory in Brazil for high quality forensic analyses on wildlife crime evidence for all South American countries.
References
- Web site: Mega. Emiliano Rodríguez. 2015-08-26. Fighting wildlife smuggling, one DNA test at a time. 2021-08-14. Science AAAS. en.
- Web site: 2014-08-09. Juliana Machado Ferreira, Wildlife Trafficking Warrior. 2021-08-14. OZY.
- Web site: Juliana Machado Ferreira. 2021-08-14. WINGS WorldQuest. en-US.
- Web site: Juliana Machado Ferreira National Geographic On Campus University of Miami. 2021-08-14. natgeo.miami.edu. en.
- Web site: Ferreira. Juliana Machado. Juliana Machado Ferreira Speaker TED. 2021-08-14. www.ted.com. en.
- Contribuição da genética de populações à investigação sobre o tráfico de fauna no Brasil: desenvolvimento de microssatélites e análise da estrutura genética em Paroaria dominicana e Saltator similis (Aves: Passeriformes: Thraupidae). Universidade de São Paulo. 2012-08-13. text. pt-br. Juliana Machado. Ferreira.
- Web site: Juliana Machado-Ferreira. 2021-08-14. Global Initiative. en.
- Web site: 2014-12-27. Stepping Out of the Lab to Help Millions of Trafficked Animals. https://web.archive.org/web/20210224164606/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141227-juliana-machado-ferreira-animal-trafficking-birds-brazil. dead. February 24, 2021. 2021-08-14. Adventure. en.
- Web site: Who We Are. 2021-08-15. Friends of Freeland Foundation. en.
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