Alejandro Ortega-Argueta. Researcher and professor. B.S. in Biology, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, 1994. M.Sc. in wildlife management, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Mexico, 2000. Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia, 2008. He has worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas and the Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales of the Universidad Veracruzana, and the Instituto de Ecologia, A.C., Mexico. Since 2013, he has been a senior researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in biodiversity research and conservation projects. He has conducted academic stays in Mexico, the United States, Belize, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Australia, and the United Kingdom. He was secretary of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Conservation of Manatees in Mexico and is co-author of the Recovery Program for the Conservation of Manatees in Mexico, in its 2001, 2010, and 2020 versions. He has collaborated with agencies in Mexico, Australia, Belize, Brazil, and the United States . As a researcher, he has participated in more than 50 publications (articles, chapters, and books written in Spanish and English). His fields of work include research and participation in planning, management, and analysis of environmental policies for biodiversity conservation and sustainability. He is a member of the IUCN Conservation Planning Specialist Group. In 2023 he carried out an academic stay at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, UK.