Marcela Cañón is a marine biologist with a masters degree in Environmental Sciences, Legislation and Management, and with training in sustainable development. Ms. Cañón has been working as advisor for the Natural National Parks System Unit of the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development in Colombia, supporting the implementation of policies, plans, programs, and particularly projects related to biodiversity conservation in areas of the National Parks System and the National Protected Areas System, including Mountain Protected Areas. Previously in the Technical Department of the Environment of Bogotá, she was in charge of land planning, conservation, community and institutional consultation, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of projects as Program Coordinator of “Cerros Orientales (Eastern Range) management” and Program Coordinator of “Wetlands restoration and recovery”. She has been an Ecology lecturer in the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Bogotá), and participated in the discussion of the protected areas program - Convention of Biological Diversity, COP VII.

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