Juliana Martins is a Brazilian conservationist working as a Research and Field Assistant at the Reconecta Project, where she collects and analyzes roadkill data in the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous Reserve in the heart of the Amazon to understand the impact of road infrastructure on vulnerable species and the communities that coexist with them. Her scholarship supports her PhD in Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and the Zoological Society of London. Her research explores the effects of nighttime traffic restrictions on wildlife mortality along the BR-174 highway. Juliana aspires to establish an institute focused on creating wildlife-friendly infrastructure, such as canopy bridges and tunnels, to protect jaguars, tapirs, spider monkeys, and other threatened species from road-related threats.
She was nominated by Whitley Award Recipient Dr. Fernanda Abra.
Awarded the Sidney Byers Scholarship for Wildlife Conservation.
Location: Brazil
University: Imperial College London and the Zoological Society of London