Micaela Camino is the founder and director of Proyecto Quimilero, and she works as a researcher at the Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral (CECOAL) - National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She has been working in wildlife conservation, together and horizontally with Indigenous and non-Indigenous, forest-dependent people for over a decade. Her research focuses on conservation ecology and she is also focusing on the ecology of large terrestrial mammals, the effects of habitat loss on their populations, and alternatives to conserve natural ecosystems through different strategies, while achieving local communities´ well-being. She has recently won the international Whitley Award for her conservation efforts and research.