Jemimah Rivera
Jemimah Rivera is from Margarita Island, Venezuela. She has always had a great attraction for the wildlife, sciences, history, arts and letters.
She is Marine Biologist graduated in the Universidad de Oriente, in her time that university was one of the best schools in Latin America for marine biologists. Since 2003 she has participated in different kinds of project about conservation biology that including: turtles, lizards, mangroves, parrots, cetaceans, sharks, corals, fishes and fisheries management. She also has experience teaching ichthyology in her university. During 2006-2008 she was an important researcher in the rebuilding the Venezuelan landscape through natural history, since the conquest of the Spaniards in the West Indies, until current times. she has coordinated fisheries management projects on sharks and sardines, and, conservation programs aimed at behavior change in communities, in regard to poaching, mining, and deforestation. Besides, she worked like volunteer for 5 years in the Coastal Zones Committee in the Environment Ministry.
She has specialized courses in conservation biology with Tirimbina Biological Reserved (Costa Rica), and The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation with ACOANA (Venezuela). She has a diploma in entrepreneurship and innovation. Currently, due to the severe economic crisis in her country, she took advantage of it, and, she became a small businesswoman making organic products for skin care. She has been working like a CLiC fellow in a project about Healthy Coral Reefs in Grenada, which is trying to promote healthy reefs through to water quality monitoring and a behavior change campaign. Now, she's joining the CLiC team as Alumni, and, she's writing a Concept Note for to develop conservation projects in his country.
She is Marine Biologist graduated in the Universidad de Oriente, in her time that university was one of the best schools in Latin America for marine biologists. Since 2003 she has participated in different kinds of project about conservation biology that including: turtles, lizards, mangroves, parrots, cetaceans, sharks, corals, fishes and fisheries management. She also has experience teaching ichthyology in her university. During 2006-2008 she was an important researcher in the rebuilding the Venezuelan landscape through natural history, since the conquest of the Spaniards in the West Indies, until current times. she has coordinated fisheries management projects on sharks and sardines, and, conservation programs aimed at behavior change in communities, in regard to poaching, mining, and deforestation. Besides, she worked like volunteer for 5 years in the Coastal Zones Committee in the Environment Ministry.
She has specialized courses in conservation biology with Tirimbina Biological Reserved (Costa Rica), and The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation with ACOANA (Venezuela). She has a diploma in entrepreneurship and innovation. Currently, due to the severe economic crisis in her country, she took advantage of it, and, she became a small businesswoman making organic products for skin care. She has been working like a CLiC fellow in a project about Healthy Coral Reefs in Grenada, which is trying to promote healthy reefs through to water quality monitoring and a behavior change campaign. Now, she's joining the CLiC team as Alumni, and, she's writing a Concept Note for to develop conservation projects in his country.