About Rosa
Rosa Maria Vidal is a Mexican conservationist, with more than 30 years of experience working in conservation. In 1993 she established Pronatura Sur, a conservation non-profit in Mexico, where she lead a team of 70 professionals and was its Director until 2014. From 2014-2016 she was the Executive Director of the Governors´Climate and Forests Fund, an initiative that led to the mobilization of funding for efforts to reduce deforestation in subnational entities in tropical countries. Her areas of expertise are institutional development, capacity building, REDD+ and climate change, protected areas management, community based conservation, forests governance, gender mainstreaming in conservation, networks and partnerships.