Paulo Colchao

Paulo Colchao Claux holds a bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Paulo is interested in conservation and ecosystem health, how diseases, environmental factors and anthropic can positively or negatively affect the different marine and coastal species, and how this affects the welfare of man. Paulo as a colaborator has developed the "Necropsies Guide in otariids in Punta San Juan", basic text for the development of the necropsies in the area. He has also reported abnormal mortality of fur seals by interaction with fisheries in PSJ. He has actively participated in the development and implementation of the "Rodent community monitoring plan for Punta San Juan Reserve". He has participated as a field assistant in many researches that have been carried out in recent years as health monitoring of the population of sea lions, fur seals , Humboldt penguins and sea birds, foraging ecology and habitat use of pinnipeds and penguins, and participated in the Humboldt penguins national census, etc. He has worked in environmental education activities in the community project "Building bridges to Punta San Juan". He has presented posters at conferences on the mortality of sea lions.