Juliana Machado Ferreira (

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

, 1980) is a Brazilian

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, a conservation geneticist, and an

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against

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. 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" through the combination of scientific research, education and awareness, and public policy. She is a

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Senior Fellow.

Biography and early career

Juliana Machado Ferreira was born in

(

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

). She completed a BSc Biological Sciences, MSc and PhD Biology (Genetics) at the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

Contributions

Juliana started as a

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, was a 2014

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Emerging Explorer and received the 2016 WINGS Courage Award from the organization WINGS WorldQuest. 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. 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

External links

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''Freeland Brasil'' (english version)
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