I'm ANDRIANARIVELO Miora Henintsoa, Master Degree's in Environmental Management, Consultant (Reshearcher) in the field of Animal and Plant Conservation, Natural Resources Management.
My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity development. I researched mother-young interactions in gorillas and chimpanzees, in captivity and the wild. After that, I worked for three years in Indonesia, where I developed and implemented youth ambassador and community engagement programmes on local and regional scales. I work as Community Manager at WildHub since 2020, and I am on the Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent where I obtained my PhD on capacity development for conservation in 2022.
I am a professor at the State University of Santa Cruz - Bahia - Brazil. As a veterinarian I work in the health context and lately I have admired the area of Unique Health, Ecosystem Health and Conservation Medicine. I am currently involved in research related to zoonotic diseases, including arboviruses, and also research in the area of animal welfare, biosafety and anesthesiology. In 2018, we founded the Wild Animal Care and Research Center (NAPAS), linked to the Veterinary Hospital of the University. In this space we are responsible for improving and maintaining the health status of wild animals in the southern region of the state of Bahia. We have a team made up of undergraduate and graduate students, in addition to specialists from the most varied areas of Veterinary Medicine.
I am a PhD Candidate in the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences. My research focuses on the community ecology and conservation of nocturnal lemurs of the family Cheirogaleidae in Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, Madagascar.
Steve Unwin
Program Manager One Health Surveillance for the Indo-Pacific, Wildlife Health Australia
Steve joined Wildlife Health Australia in April 2022 as the Program Manager - One Health Surveillance and Wildlife Collaborating Centre for Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Steve graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in ecology and veterinary science. He has worked as a wildlife clinician in several zoos, wildlife rehabilitation centres and conservation projects in Australia, Thailand, Cameroon and UK, and academia in the UK. Steve is a European specialist in Zoo Health Management and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. He has coordinated international, multidisciplinary wildlife health networks in Africa and South-East Asia.
As a systems thinker in the One Health space, Steve aims to mitigate adverse environmental health impacts from human activity at the human-wildlife interface in the Indo-Pacific region through interdisciplinary research, capacity development and effective networked risk management. Steve’s research interests focus on wildlife infectious diseases, especially zoonoses, disease risk analysis and mental health of wildlife health practitioners.
I am a biological anthropologist who studies primate behavioral ecology. I investigate primate social relationships using both theoretical and empirical approaches. Since 1993, I have conducted research on captive and wild primates, including lemurs, monkeys, and apes. This experience with multiple primate species has given me a broad perspective on primate behavioral ecology that informs my program of research. Generally speaking, my research seeks to better understand the factors that influence primate social relationships. In particular, I focus on (1) power dynamics and sex-biased power structures, and (2) how primates negotiate their relationships within the context group life. My empirical research examines the demographic, ecological, genetic, physiological, morphological, and social influences on primate relationships in wild lemurs. Social relationships are best understood with long-term data. Consequently, I started a long-term study of Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) at the Ankoatsifaka Research Station in the Kirindy Mitea National Park in Madagascar.