Grupo de Especialistas en Nutrias de la CSE de la UICN

Caroline is a biologist, working with ecology and conservation. She got her Ph.D. at the Ecology program of the Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, Amazon state, and her Master’s in Ecology and Conservation at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. For the past sixteen years, Caroline has been conducting research on giant otters in the Pantanal of Brazil, having published several articles, both technical and popular, that broaden the knowledge about this endangered species. Since 2013, she has been nominated by the IUCN as the Brazilian representative of giant otters in the Otter Specialist Group, of the Species Survival Commission. She is founder and coordinator of the Giant Otter Project. Currently she is professor at the Federal Institute Farroupilha and works as invited research collaborator at the Wildlife Laboratory at the EMBRAPA-Pantanal, and at the Bioacoustic Laboratory, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN).