Citlalli Morelos-Juárez

DR. CITLALLI MORELOS-JUÁREZ is a primatologist working in the Ecuador’s  Chocó rainforest – one of the world’s last coastal rainforests and a global biodiversity hotspot. Director of the Tesoro Escondido Reserve, she helps protect the habitat of at least 7,000 species of plants and animals, a quarter of which are found nowhere else on earth, in an area highly threatened by timber extraction, monocrops, hunting and mining concessions. She created a parabiologist program that trains, employs and empowers local women to lead and learn about the forest’s ecosystem and sustainability.