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Silvia Weel

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Screen Name	silweel	Activities	3
Member Since	Apr 12, 2016	CoLab Points (actual) CoLab Points are awarded to all the members who contributed to a winning integrated Proposal, as well as those who contributed to any sub-Proposal it contains.(See more)	0
Country	Brazil	CoLab Points (max. potential) The maximum number of CoLab Points this member could receive. This is a measure of how many times the member’s Proposal have been included in other Proposal and how important it is in those Proposal.(See more)	0

I was born in a Dutch village in Brazil, named Holambra. Icompleted my Bachelor studies in Ecology at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brazil) with a specific focus on applied techniques for restoring degraded lands through an understanding of the ecological succession stages of forest development. Upon graduation, I had the opportunity to coordinate a fieldwork team (INPA/Smithsonian), conducting a phytodemographic survey in the Amazon Forest which provided a deeper understanding of ecological processes such as fragmentation. Afterwards, I traveled through Europe and pursued a Master’s degree in Geo-Information Science at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. I was a founding member of EarthCollective in The Netherlands and initiated my adventures in South Africa through the development of a vegetation monitoring programme in the Great Fish River Reserve. New opportunities arose while in South Africa which motivated the founding of Living Lands. Since then, I managed with my colleagues a set of initiatives for collectively finding out solutions for degraded landscapes, climate change solutions, wildlife conservation strategies and general socio environmental issues. I acted in a research capacity and supervised various visiting remote sensing & GIS students. During a couple of months in 2009 I worked with Brazillian and US organizations in researching the social, environmental and economical trade offs between business as usual versus REDD+ scheme in the Amazon. I presented some of our results at COP15 in Copenhagen. In 2013 I went back to Brazil for supporting other projects, acting as a consultant to private and public sectors, enabling sustainable development both in rural and urban landscapes. I am currently investigating opportunities to support conservation and restoration strategic planning and implementation initiatives, at no specific location, as those issues are world wide demands.

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