Apresentação
Contextos de Pesquisa
Portugal (Baixo Alentejo, Sul do Douro, área Oeste Lisboa )
Interesses de Pesquisa
Local knowledge| Predator conservation | Empirical classifications | Zoonosis
Afiliação
NOVA FCSH
Nota biográfica
Margarida Lopes Fernandes is an integrated researcher at Centre for Research in Anthropology. She has a post-doctoral contract and has been working for more than 25 years in conservation projects such as the reintroduction of Iberian Lynx. She has been promoting multidisciplinary collaborations for a long time having published in the areas of Veterinary, Genetics, Ecology and Ethnoecology. She has been Vice-chair of COST action G-BIKE and integrates the Board of the Spanish Society for Study and Conservation of mammals. Margarida gave over 25 talks at national and international meetings as well as for schools, universities, urban festivals and livestock event. Mainly interested in combining different types of data to address questions related with the relationship between humans and non-humans in particular wild predators. Her research interests focus on combining socio-ecological, genomic, anthropological data and zoonosis dynamics in order to understand risks for local communities and wild threatened species. She supports scientific based decisions and advocates involvement of local actors in conservation processes.
