{"id":723,"date":"2016-02-23T21:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/?page_id=723"},"modified":"2016-02-23T21:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T21:31:37","slug":"manuela-pelaez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/manuela-pelaez\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuela Pelaez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Manuela Pelaez<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/02\/1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-724\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-724\" src=\"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/02\/1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605.jpg\" alt=\"1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605\" width=\"455\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/02\/1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/02\/1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/02\/1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/02\/1b1b9a6b7d41999cc50ee0a283044605-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a>Born and raised in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia. Completed her degree in Marine Affairs with a minor in Biology and Anthropology at the University of Miami. After graduating from the United States in 2012, Manuela returned to her native country giving priority to the protection of its high biodiversity and rich cultural heritage, and to the promotion of its sustainable development. She worked for a year at Fundaci\u00f3n Herencia Ambiental Caribe, an environmental NGO based in Santa Marta, Colombia that fosters environmental conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources, especially water sources and wetlands, as a means of improving economic and social conditions for the local Caribbean communities.\u00a0In 2013, Manuela\u00a0moved to Cartagena, Colombia and founded the NGO Fundaci\u00f3n Pez Le\u00f3n to lead a project with the objective of reducing the invasive lionfish population by promoting its consumption, commercialization and fishing practices. She then moved back to Santa Marta in 2015 to replicate and escalate the impact of this project. Concerned with the unsustainable land use and degradation in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Manuela joined the Environomica team, a European NGO that supports partnerships for people and planet with expertise on sustainable agroforestry and natural resource management. She is currently working as the Colombian Local Coordinator for Environomica Colombia on the implementation of conservation and sustainable development projects in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serran\u00eda del Cocuy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuela Pelaez Born and raised in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia. Completed her degree in Marine Affairs with a minor in Biology and Anthropology at the University of Miami. After graduating from the United States in 2012, Manuela returned to her native country giving priority to the protection of its high biodiversity and \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/manuela-pelaez\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3035,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-723","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}