Archives: Miembros

Juan Fernando Pesántez Muñoz

Marine biologist and M.Sc.in Research Projects. Founding Member and Director of the Fundación Contamos Contigo Ecuador. Ocean Technician and Educator at the “Reina Laúd” Turtle Camp. President of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance Ecuador Hub Manabí. He works on research and conservation of sea turtles and research on the problem of microplastics. He is a speaker […]

Kerly Briones

Ecotourism engineer, currently Vice President of the Fundación Contamos Contigo Ecuador, and Director of the first turtle camp in Ecuador “Reina Laúd”. Since 2016, she leads groups of volunteers with awareness programs for the protection and rescue of sea turtles. She has more than 15 years of experience promoting ecotourism in Manabí, dabbling in the […]

Mike Liles

Mike is the Founder and Scientific Director of the ProCosta Association. He has over 15 years of experience working with local communities in Central America to promote biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources. Mike has a Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University and currently serves as Regional Vice-President […]

Karla Barrientos Muñoz

Karla is the Co-Founder and Director of the Fundación Tortugas del Mar. She is a Biologist from the University of Antioquia. She is the Coordinator for Colombia of WIDECAST (Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network). She has been a member of the International Society of Sea Turtle Specialists since 2011. She has worked in conservation, […]

Delia Karen E. Oceguera Camacho

Karen graduated in Marine Biology in 2002 from the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) and has a Master’s degree from the same institution (2008). She worked on a sea turtle research project with the Brazilian NGO TAMAR in the States of Bahia, Sergipe, and Espíritu Santo, from January to April 2006, where she […]

Mariela Pajuelo

A Peruvian Biologist. Her work has focused on studying the feeding ecology of sea turtles; and the impact of fisheries on endangered marine animal populations. Mariela is currently a Scientific Assistant at the Florida Museum of Natural History located at the University of Florida; there, she continues her research on marine species conservation and promotes […]

Dzoara Castro

Dzoara’s professional and volunteer experience working with sea turtles is as follows:  Sea Shepherd, Mexico: She was the coordinator of the Marcelino Campaign. She recruited many volunteers for the partner turtle protection camps and she invited other turtle protection camps to join the collaboration network.  Altepetl, A.C.: She gave awareness lectures to the entire population […]

Luz Rodríguez Vargas

Technical and administrative assistant to the Secretariat of the Inter-American Convention.