Gabriela Ponce Santizo: 19 years of nature conservation in Guatemala

Gabriela Ponce Santizo, a Guatemalan biologist, has been active in nature conservation for 19 years and is now Country Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Guatemala. Raised among farms and beaches on Guatemala's Pacific coast, she developed an early sensitivity to issues such as deforestation, wildlife trafficking and species extinction. She studied biology at the Universidad del Valle...