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Miss Pilar de María VELÁSQUEZ JOFRE

Fisheries and Marine Conservation Technical Officer

World Wildlife Fund-Guatemala / Mesoamerican Reef

Work Location

World Wildlife Fund-Guatemala / Mesoamerican Reef 15 avenida 13-45 Colonia Oakland zona 10
01010 Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala

Nationality

Guatemala

Email(s)

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Telephone

+50230161863

Profile URL

https://oceanexpert.net/expert/pilarvjofre

Highest Degree

MSc. International Studies in Aquatic Tropical Ecology (ISATEC)

Job Type

Natural Resource Management

Subject Area

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Fisheries, Aquaculture

Activities

  1. Implementation of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) focused on the Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) in Honduras and Nicaragua,
  2. Coordinator for Guatemala of the regional project "Climate-Smarting Marine Protected Areas and Coastal Management in the Mesoamerican Reef Region", funded by IKI, and
  3. National marine conservation actions in Guatemala, especially in the Pacific. 

Sea regions of study

Caribbean Sea

Skills

Biologist with expertise in research and management of coastal marine ecosystems, Marine Protected Areas designs and implementation, institutional and conservation planning, and project’s planning, execution and evaluation. 
 

Working language(s)

Spanish
English

Social

Comment(s)

Eager to learn and eager to collaborate for the oceans conservation, especifically the Eastern Tropical Pacific!

Created: 2019-09-29 | Last Updated: 2019-09-29