Juliana Machado Ferreira
Juliana Machado Ferreira | |
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| Born | |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]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.[4] 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.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Mega, Emiliano Rodríguez (2015-08-26). "Fighting wildlife smuggling, one DNA test at a time". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ "Juliana Machado Ferreira, Wildlife Trafficking Warrior". OZY. 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ a b "Juliana Machado Ferreira". WINGS WorldQuest. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ a b "Juliana Machado Ferreira | National Geographic On Campus | University of Miami". natgeo.miami.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ Ferreira, Juliana Machado. "Juliana Machado Ferreira | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ Ferreira, Juliana Machado (2012-08-13). 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) (text thesis) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Universidade de São Paulo.
- ^ "Juliana Machado-Ferreira". Global Initiative. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ "Stepping Out of the Lab to Help Millions of Trafficked Animals". Adventure. 2014-12-27. Archived from the original on February 24, 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
- ^ "Who We Are". Friends of Freeland Foundation. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
External links
[edit]- Publications by Juliana Machado Ferreira at ResearchGate
- Juliana Machado Ferreira publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Freeland Brasil (english version)
