MDPI World Wildlife Day Webinar 2024

Ferrum College, USA;Todd Fredericksen teaches courses in environmental science and biology at Ferrum College. Research interests include the effects of forest management on biodiversity, natural history and conservation of wildlife species in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and tropical and temperate forest ecology. He is the editor of Banisteria, the journal of the Virginia Natural History Society and Editor of the journal Trees, Forests, and People. He is a wildland firefighter with the Virginia Department of Forestry and a member of the Virginia Natural History Society, Virginia Society for Ornithology, and the Virginia Herpetological Society.

Portuguese Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests, Portugal;Luísa works at the Portuguese Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests since 1987 as a biologist. She coordinates the National monitoring programme of cave-dwelling bats which started in 1987, promotes the management of bat roosts and contributes to the conservation of bats. She was one of the Editors of the recent Portuguese Mammals Red Data Book. and is one of the National coordinators of the European Atlas of Mammals. She is also in charge of the preparation of the Article 17 Habitats Directive´s reports regarding bats. Currently she is a Senior Advisor for EUROBATS, she participates in several Intersessional Working Groups and she co-coordinates the Intersessional Working Group on Wind Turbines and Bat Populations.