Hernando Cabral Perdomo
Hernando Cabral Perdomo
Hernando Cabral Perdomo, Climate Change and Ecosystem Based Adaptation Coordinator, Mexico & Northern Central America
Monterrey, Mexico
A biologist specializing in ornithology, Hernando Cabral joined the Conservancy in 2004 as northeast Mexico program manager, where he developed conservation plans for numerous eco-regions, protected areas and private lands. He was responsible several conservation projects as part of the USAID Parks in Peril program in the Cuatrociénegas protected area, in Coahuila, Mexico. He is chairman of the counseling boards of five natural protected areas in Northeast Mexico. In 2009, he assisted in drafting the technical justification study instrumental in the declaration of the Ocampo Flora and Fauna Protected Area in Coahuila, Mexico. Together with the adjacent Maderas del Carmen and Cañón de Santa Elena protected areas in Mexico and Big Bend and Black Gap National Park across the Rio Grande in Texas, the addition of Ocampo has created one of the largest bi-national conservation corridors in the world. Currently, Cabral coordinates the development and implementation of cross-cutting strategies to abate priority threats that climate change will only exacerbate, such as fire and invasive species. He also leads in climate change ecosystem-based adaptation projects that support countrywide and state-level initiatives in Mexico and Northern Central American countries.
His experience includes more than 10 years of work with various Mexican government agencies in the conservation of protected areas, sustainable rural development, wildlife management, and monitoring of several bird, reptile, fish, mammal, and plant species. He also worked at the National Ornithological Collection at the Biology Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is currently completing doctoral studies in wildlife management and sustainable development at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in Mexico.
Joined 2012
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