Dr. Carlos E. Galindo Leal

He obtained his bachelor´s degree in biology at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, in 1979. He obtained his Master in Science degree and his Doctorate in Philosophy (1980-1991) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.
He worked as a researcher at the Center for Applied Conservation Biology (CACB), in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC (1991-1993).
He worked as Director of Tropical Conservación Tropical in the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) at Stanford University, California (1994-2000) and Director of the State of the Hotspots program at the Center for Applied Conservation Biology at Conservation International, Washington, D.C. During this time his work focus on the most threatened regions of the world: the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean and Philippines.
He has taught courses in field ecology in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile. He has also taught mammalian ecology with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. After 23 years of working outside Mexico, he returned to work as Director of the Mexican Forest Program of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in México (2003-2008). Presently, he is Director of Scientific Communication in the
National Commission for the Use and Knowledge of Biodiversity (CONABIO).
He has participated in many conferences, seminars and congress.
He has published several books such as: “Panthera onca”, “Danaidas, the wonderful monarch butterflies”, “The frogs, toads and salamanders of the Yucatan Peninsula”, “The Sierra Madre White-tailed deer, ecology, management and conservation”, among others.
He has published scientific articles and articles for the general public in magazines like Unknown Mexico and Species.
He writes the monthly section Mexicans by Nature in the magazine Mexicanisimo and he writes in National Geographic en Español, where he is part of the Advisory Committee.