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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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Yovana Murillo
Field Veterinarian
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Yovana is a veterinarian graduated from Alas Peruanas University in 2004. She also received diplomacy in Wildlife Management and Conservation at the Major National University of San Marcos in 2010 in Lima, Peru. She has worked in various clinics with exotic animals and has elaborated management plans and master plans of fauna ex-situ, including for the establishment of rescue centers set up to take care of confiscated wild animals from illegal trade. In 2012, she joined WCS to work in the Wildlife Health and Policy program, for the PREDICT project – part of USAID’s Program on “Emerging Pandemic Threats”. In 2015 she assumed the leadership of WCS's wildlife trafficking and health initiative in Peru, where she coordinated and executed wildlife trafficking combat projects under the funding of U.S. Department of State implementing agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). Since the end of 2019, she is the coordinator for wildlife trafficking issues in the Andes Amazon region of WCS, which includes Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil, leading the Alliance for Wildlife and Forests, a regional action initiative developed under the support of the European Union. She is a member of diffent organizations as the Global Initiative Network Experts, Wildlife Disease Association (WDA), Peruvian Veterinarian Association (APEFEVAS) and Pacific Sea Bird Group (PSG). |
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