Alvaro Velasco Barbieri

Alvaro Velasco Barbieri, born in Venezuela, 66 years old.

Biologist and a postgraduate in Wildlife management and fisheries.

Wildlife Guard in Wildlife Service (Profauna), Ministry of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (MARNR), 1988 – 2001.

Cofounder (2000) and actual President of Venezuela Crocodile Specialist Group.

Member of Crocodile Specialist Group IUCN/SSC from 1992 and member of the Steering Committee for Latin American and the Caribbean.

Associated Scientific Researcher in Section of Ecological Dynamics, Institute of Tropical Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, UCV, from 1996 to the present.

Advisor of Environmental Commission of Foundation of the National Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Venezuela. From 2017.

Associated research Foundation of the National Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Venezuela.

Board member of Foundation of the National Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Venezuela.

Coordinator of the 14th Animals Committee Meeting of CITES, Caracas, May 1998.

CITES Animals Committee, regional representative for Central - South America and the Caribbean, 2004-2010.

Instructor in First and Second MSc. Courses on Promotion, Conservation and Control of Species Subjected to International Trade, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia sede Antonio Machado, Baeza, España. April 1998 and October 1999.

Consultant of the National Program for the Conservation of the Caiman Llanero (Crocodylus intermedius) in Colombia. 1998.

Adviser in the National Program for the Conservation of the Cayman (Caiman yacare) in Bolivia.

Coordinator and instructor in the 13 training courses for biologists, zootechnicians, veterinary doctors, National Guard, park rangers, zookeepers and CITES management authority personnel.

Author and co-author of more than 85 scientific articles in books and journals.

Nominated for the Indianapolis Price Award twice.