Amazon rainforest, connectivity and indigenous territories:

Senior Programme Officer & Head of UNEP Colombia.

Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) with 25 years of expertise in international environmental law, international negotiation on biodiversity, and science-policy interface.

Lawyer and conservationist. Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force. Co-founder and senior advisor for Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) and Nature Needs Half.

Executive Director of Nature and Culture in Ecuador. Biologist and Magister in Tropical Biodiversity Management.

Biologist. Helena holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Conservation from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has assessed the role of the "other effective area-based conservation measures" (OECMs) established in Aichi Target 11 (CBD).

Executive Director of the Instituto del Bien Común- IBC (Perú). Ecologist, researcher and educator in nature conservation, indigenous peoples, ecosystemic approaches to health and critical analysis of development, with emphasis on the Amazon.

Sociologist. She is currently strategic director of the Socio-environmental Working Group of the Amazon, Wataniba (Venezuela). Since 2002, she has been dedicated to the design of policies for the Amazon, with a perspective that considers the protection of forests and the rights of Amazonian indigenous peoples.

Executive Director of the EcoCiencia Foundation (Ecuador). PhD in Biological Sciences with specialization in vegetation and biogeography. Carmen has extensive experience in applied research for environmental and conservation projects.

Harold is a member of the Tikuna ethnnic group of the Colombian Amazon. He is an anthropologist, the general secretary of OPIAC (Organization of the Indigenous Amazonian Peoples of the Colombian Amazon) and Climate Change and Biodiversity Coordinator for COICA (Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin).

Gregorio is a member of the Guarinuma ethnnic group of the Venezuelan Amazon and is the general Coordinator of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA).

Cristiane is a member of the Pankararu ethnic group of Brazil. She has a degree in geography and a master's degree in social anthropology. She is currently a member of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB).

Degree and PhD in Biological Sciences. During the last 20 years she has been working on issues related to conservation and territorial management, with emphasis on the importance of natural protected areas for this process.

Julia is currently the Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Protected Areas. For 17 years, she directed National Natural Parks of Colombia, leading the administration and effective management of 62 areas of the National Parks System.

Chief Executive Director of Gaia Amazonas Foundation (Colombia). Francis is a professional in Development Studies specialized in local development strategies, and inter-cultural environmental management with a strong emphasis on community-based research and participation.

Coordinator of the Sangay-Podocarpus Corridor for Nature and Culture International (Ecuador). Biologist with an Ecology degree from the University of Costa Rica.

Corine directs the Andes-Amazon program in the Keller Science Action Center. She is a field biologist with deep experience with the flora and vegetation of the remotest corners of the Western Amazon

Economist. Since 2007 he has been working with Indigenous peoples and other Local Communities of Amapá and northern Pará -located in the Brazilian Amazon- through the Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena- Iepé, a civil society organization from Brazil.

Economist and Magister in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics. Senior Environmental Specialist and coordinator of the Amazon Sustainable Landscape Program (ASL) for the World Bank Group, financed with resources from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Avecita has over 25 years of experience in natural resource use, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on the Amazon. Currently, she is the program director for the Andes-Amazon Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Since 1990, Germán has been an integral member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Currently, German is professor of the Department of Geosciences and the Environment at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Martin has dedicated his life to the autonomy of the indigenous peoples of the Colombian Amazon. Anthropologist and Ph.D. in Ethnology from the University of Paris. In 1990 he created the Gaia Amazonas Foundation.

Silvio is senior technician in Watershed Management with a Gender Approach, Agronomist Engineer and Magister in Development and Environment. Currently, he is responsible for the Zonal Forestry and Wildlife area of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition of Ecuador.

For over 20 years, Jodi has worked to advance conservation leading science, community-based conservation and policy and management changes. She is An expert on wildlife corridors and the president and chief scientist of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y).

Ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Wade spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American. He is currently Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.