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:

  1. educational efforts and awareness action to diminish the demand for wild pets and products from wildlife,
  2. giving support to the development of robust networks for international and regional law enforcement against wildlife trafficking, and
  3. 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

  1. Web site: Mega. Emiliano Rodríguez. 2015-08-26. Fighting wildlife smuggling, one DNA test at a time. 2021-08-14. Science AAAS. en.
  2. Web site: 2014-08-09. Juliana Machado Ferreira, Wildlife Trafficking Warrior. 2021-08-14. OZY.
  3. Web site: Juliana Machado Ferreira. 2021-08-14. WINGS WorldQuest. en-US.
  4. Web site: Juliana Machado Ferreira National Geographic On Campus University of Miami. 2021-08-14. natgeo.miami.edu. en.
  5. Web site: Ferreira. Juliana Machado. Juliana Machado Ferreira Speaker TED. 2021-08-14. www.ted.com. en.
  6. 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.
  7. Web site: Juliana Machado-Ferreira. 2021-08-14. Global Initiative. en.
  8. 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.
  9. Web site: Who We Are. 2021-08-15. Friends of Freeland Foundation. en.

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