Dr Silvio Marchini

PhD in Wildlife Conservation (University of Oxford, UK), MS in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (University of Missouri-Saint Louis, USA), and BS in Biology (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Member of the IUCN Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG) and Editor for Frontiers in Conservation Science and Conservation Science & Practice. Founder of Escola da Amazônia, a project that earned him a Whitley Award, and of the Community of Practice in Human-Wildlife Coexistence (CoPCoex). Silvio co-edited the book 'Human-Wildlife Interactions: Turning Conflict into Coexistence" (Cambridge University Press) and has taught human dimensions and planning for human-wildlife coexistence to students and wildlife professionals in Brazil, United Kingdom, United States, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Malaysia