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Who am I?

I smile with my eyes and laugh with my soul. I am the loudest in the room as the quietest who observes and absorbs. Handmade gifts and home dinners are my love language. I live in the present and in the infinite possibilities that life has to offer. I need solitude and excitement, calmness, and turbulence. One adventure is never enough. My heart is always craving something more. I need the small mundane and the big impactful achievements. I feel at home so far away from home. I need movement, sea, and forest. I travel to diversify my mind and heart, to learn and understand, and to feel immensely. 

Skills
& Expertise

  • I'm an interdisciplinary researcher merging conservation, wildlife ecology, animal behavior, social science, and psychology. 

  • I work with the Sustainable Livelihood Approach, Social-ecological systems, Social Networks, Theory of Behavior Change, and Open Conservation Standards.

  • I can work in multicultural contexts, with multi-stakeholders, and in remote areas.

  • I'm a responsible leader from the BMW Responsible Leadership Network.

  • I have training on stakeholder participation, process design, and facilitation of decision-making and knowledge sharing to co-develop inclusive conservation strategies

Work
Experience

2018 - present

Ph.D. Candidate 

Human-wildlife interactions and livelihood vulnerability in the context of conservation in Mozambique

Ce3c - Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change (Ce3c), University of Lisbon, Portugal

2017 - 2018

Research Assistant

Pan African Programme (PanAf)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology

2017 - 2018

Research Assitant

Management and conservation of brown bear populations in the northern Dinarides and Alps (within Life Dinalp Bear Project)

Faculty of Medicine Veterinary of Zagreb University, Croatia

2014

Research Assistant

Use of plants by captive chimpanzees in a naturalistic environment

Fundació MONA, Girona, Spain

Education

2018 - 2023

Lisbon University | Doctor's Degree

Biology and Ecology of Global Changes

2015 - 2016

Lund University | Master’s Degree

Biology: Ecology and Conservation

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2010 - 2013

Lisbon University| Bachelor's Degree

Biology : Environmental Biology 

Projects Mapping 

Project: Vozes do Mar - involvement of fishermen in plastic circular economy

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Expertise & skills: questionnaires & interviews, focus group, branding

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Position: project co-founder & volunteer

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Project: Zingela Predator Conservation Project

 

Expertise & skills: radio-telemetry tracking and cheetahs monitoring 

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Position: volunteer assistant 

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Project: Management and protection of brown bear populations in the northern Dinarides and Alps (in Life Dinalp Bear Project)

 

Expertise & skills: radio-telemetry tracking, live-capturing, immobilization, GPS collaring, organ sampling 

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Position: research fellowship holder 

Project: How Do Bumblebees And Honeybees Exploit Food Resources In Different Habitat Qualities?

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Expertise & skills: optimal foraging theory, foraging behavior recording, plant identification

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Position: M.Sc, candidate 

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Project: Human-wildlife interactions and livelihood vulnerability in the context of conservation in Mozambique

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Expertise & skills: Social-ecological systems, Sustainable Livelihood Approach, questionnaires & interviews, social network

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Position: Ph.D. candidate 

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Project: Capacity building towards the implementation of an EcoHealth framework in Northern Mozambique

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Expertise & skills: 

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Position: researcher

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Project: Use of plants by captive chimpanzees in a naturalistic environment

 

Expertise & skills: chimpanzees ethogram and herbaceous plant identification

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Position: research fellowship holder

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Project: Forest Certification as a tool to preserve vertebrates’ biodiversity in exotic forestry plantations

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Expertise & skills: questionnaires & interviews

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Position: researcher

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past and present

Publications

  • Pereira, J., Gross, E., Agostinho, J. (in press). A framework to assess the suitability of Revenues-Sharing Schemes for human-wildlife coexistence. Conservation Science and Practice 

  • Pereira, J., Santos, M.J., Curveira-Santos, G., Hunnink, L., Fonseca, C., Rosalino, L.M. (in preparation). River density modulates the effects of forest cover and human density as drivers of human-wildlife conflicts in Mozambique. Conservation Biology

  • Pereira, J., Rosalino, L.M., Ekblom, A., Santos, M.J. (2024). Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas. Ecology and Society.

  • Marchini, S., .., Pereira, J., et al. (2023). ‘As pessoas mentem’: superando obstáculos para incorporar a pesquisa em ciências sociais à conservação. Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente.

  • Gross, E., Pereira, J., Shaba, T., Bilério, S., Kumchedwa, B., Lienenluke, S. (2022). Exploring routes to coexistence: Developing and testing a human-elephant conflict-management framework for African elephant-range countries. Diversity, 14(52).

  •  Pereira, J., Rosalino, L.M., Santos, M.J. (2022). Role of local communities in the social network of the protected areas management. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(5), e12664.

  • Pereira, J., Rosalino, L.M., Reljic, S., Babic, N., Huber, D. (2022). Factors influencing the success of capturing European Brown bears with foot snares. Mammalia, 86(3), 215- 224. 

  • Pereira, J., Rosalino, L.M., Mucova, S., Massangue, Y., Abdulrazak, M., Vahossa, S., Selemane, M., Fonseca, C., Santos, M.J. (2021). Livelihood vulnerability increases human-wildlife interactions. Environmental Conservation, 48(4):1-9. 

  • Rodrigues, E. D., Santos, A. J., Veppo, F., Pereira, J., & Hobaiter, C. (2021). Connecting primates gesture to evolutionary roots of language: A systematic review. American Journal of Primatology, e23313.

  • Pereira, J., Vilicic, L., Rosalino, L.M., Slaven, R., Habazin, M., Huber, D. (2021). Brown bear feeding habits in a poor mast year where supplemental feeding occurs. Ursus, 32e1, 1-13.

  • Oliveira, N., Henriques, A., Miodonski, J., Pereira, J., et al. (2014). Seabird bycatch in Portuguese mainland costal fisheries: An assessment through on-board observations and fishermen interviews. Global Ecology and Conservation, 3, 51-61.

Relevant Courses & Workshops

(2023) Best Practice Stakeholder Participation with a Focus on the Environment (3 days) Thought by Dialogue Matters, Kent, UK (https://dialoguematters.co.uk/)

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(2022) Transformative research for Global social-environmental challenges (3ECTS, 84h work Load). Thought by J. Chambers, The Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Utrecht, Netherlands

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(2022) SeedScience – Online Training for science communication, Though by M. Raggio, University of Rome. (Virtual)

 

 

(2022) The Path of Moral Leadership, Acumen Academy (Virtual)

 

(2019) Planning for human-wildlife coexistence: linking situation assessment to decision-making, Taught by S Marchinni. 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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(2019) Making Moves workshop series on creating conservation movements. Thought by B. Tully. (Virtual)

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​(2019) Science and the Media – bringing together scientists, journalists and society (3 ECTS/ 18h). Thought by M. D. Santos, cE3c, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

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