My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity exchange. 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 co-founded WildHub, a community of nature conservation professionals, in 2020 and work as their Community Lead. I am furthermore 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.
César is a Costa Rican biologist, with an interest in ecology, behavior and conservation of birds. He has been working with various bird programs for the last two-decades, but also more recently he worked as a professor for undergraduate students studying abroad. César joined MRN in 2021 and brings an ornithological knowledge to the team, along with his passion to study and conserve Costa Rica’s amazing Parrots.