Clemente Coelho Junior Ambassador

Our Ambassador, Clemente Coelho Junior, is a biologist from Brazil. He gained his degree and Master’s at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, developing research on ecology, restoration and analysis of tensors in mangrove ecosystems. Since 1987 he has been an environmental activist, and participated in several conservation actions in Brazilian biomes. In 2006 he co-founded BiomaBrasil Institute, an NGO based in Recife (Pernambuco), whose mission is: the conservation of biodiversity and rational use of natural resources in the Coastal Marine Zone, through activities of research, extension and in the formation of environmental citizenship. Since 2007 he has coordinated the Programa Guia Didactico, the Brazilian Marvellous Mangroves, in partnership with the Mangrove Action Project, having trained 600 teachers in 13 cities on the Brazilian coast. He supports marine life conservation projects, with an emphasis on the Manatee and traditional communities. He is an advisor to the National Wetlands Committee (Ramsar Convention).
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Parabéns, professor Clemente. Trabalho magnífico.