Ludmila Pizarro Ríos

Biologist by profession from the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University in 2006, born in Villa Montes-Gran Chaco, Tarija in 1982, founding member of the Gran Chaco Biodiversity Foundation “BIOCHACO” in Villa Montes in 2022, host of the environmental program on flora and fauna. fauna of the Chaco for BioChaco, active member of the Environmental and Tourism Platform of Villa Montes, participated in research on the Pilcomayo River and mining pollution with the Radboud University of Holland (degree thesis 2007), carries out external consultancies on identification issues and environmental social diagnosis of Chaco wetlands, participates in national and international competitions, awarded as an entrepreneurial woman and winner of best entrepreneurial idea for the project “Production of fishmeal from captive fish” in the city of La Paz in 2010, she specialized in fish farming in Brazil, Colombia and Bolivia, provides technical assistance and is responsible for fish farming centers such as food security projects based on aquaculture, dedicates his efforts to the conservation of Chaco flora and fauna, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with special emphasis on the Pilcomayo River and fish, monitors wild species in the Chaco, author and co-author of scientific notes on fauna and flora of the Bolivian Chaco, has constant participation in the local, regional and national media in webinars, workshops, conferences as an environmental biologist specialist for the Chaco Tarijeño, prepares a collection scientific study of genetic specimens of flora and fauna for a future project “The Chaco Natural History Museum.”