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Wildlife Health Program Wildlife Trafficking
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Luz Dary Acevedo
Wildlife Health Program Wildlife Trafficking
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Luz Dary is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine DVM from the Universidad del Tolima (Ibagué, Colombia). For more than 15 years, she has worked in wildlife health, management, and conservation in different zones of the country, especially in protected areas. She coordinated the Wildlife Program and generated the National Wildlife Strategy for National Parks of Colombia. Her experience Wildlife Health has been focused on the surveillance of diseases and the assessment of associated risk factors to reduce threats in different species and landscapes, including the development of conservation initiatives with peasant, indigenous, and Afro-descendant communities. She joined the WCS Colombia Program in 2012 and since then she has coordinated the Wildlife Health Program and since 2017 she has led the initiatives of the Colombia Program to reduce Wildlife trafficking, jointly with WCS countries in the Andes-Amazonia region. With the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, she supports the implementation of the National and Binational Strategies for the prevention and control of wildlife trafficking, as well as the National conservation programs for threatened species, especially amphibians and primates.
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Senior Technical Advisor for Inner Asia Region and Associate Director for Wildlife Health
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Stephane Ostrowski
Senior Technical Advisor for Inner Asia Region and Associate Director for Wildlife Health
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Stephane joined WCS in 2006. He received a DVM and certificates in clinical pathology from University of Lyon, France and a PhD in physiological ecology from University Claude-Bernard, Lyon, France, studying the ecophysiological adaptation of wild ruminants to hyperaridity in the Arabian Peninsula. During his tenure with WCS, Stephane has provided technical (science and monitoring, health, capacity building, livelihoods, strategies) and managerial support to programs and projects in Inner Asia, and developed One Health projects at wildlife-livestock interface in high elevation rangelands of Central Asia. His conservation efforts focused at snow leopard, Asiatic cheetah, argali and urial sheep, ibex and wild goat, markhor, gazelles, birds or prey and their associated ecosystems. Prior to joining WCS Stephane managed projects across the Middle East for the conservation of threatened Arabian fauna.
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