Carlos holds two BSc’s in Biology and teaching, and a MSc in Science. For the last nine years, he has done research and environmental education, developed the camera trap and spatial ecology techniques in the Amazon, Orinoquia, and Caribbean; he participated in creation of community monitoring with rural communities of the eastern plains and former FARC combatants. At the Natural History Museums, he has developed tasks associated with the preparation and curation of specimens for scientific collections. More recently he has worked in the conservation programs related to armadillos, bats, and wild felines. He has participated in the publishing of books, environmental education primers, book chapters, scientific articles, conference abstracts, most scientific research results on mammals and 3 of these have been reviews for Mammalian Species Accounts by Oxford Academic Press. Finally, one of his dreams is to work full time in his NGO Kurupira Foundation.