Field Notes Entry 17: Sophia Wood and Gara Trujillo

Gara Trujillo is a passionate conservation biologist with experience working in the Peruvian Amazon, Coastal Greece, and the Galapagos Islands. She recently completed an Erasmus program in Environmental Policy after directing the Opwall site in the Galapagos in 2019. Sophia is the host of our podcast and the Country Manager for Operation Wallacea’s Ecuador site. Sophia first worked with Opwall during our first season in Fiji in 2017 and then took on the Ecuador project in 2018. She is passionate about involving local and indigenous people as stakeholders in international conservation efforts, which drives her work in the Sani Reserve in Ecuador.

In this special episode they answer the question: How does wildlife research support both tourism and conservation in Ecuador? Listen here!