About Rosa
Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza is a Ph.D. chemical biologist and conservation leader who leads efforts to protect pollinators and the Amazon. Raised between the Peruvian Andes and rainforest, she founded and directs Amazon Research Internacional, working across the Amazon basin to protect biodiversity and empower communities. Her conservation work has achieved legal recognition of insect rights, inspired national conservation laws, and launched nature-based economy models across Indigenous territories.
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SpeakerAuthorAdventurer / ExplorerScientistAfter dinnerMotivationalPollinatorsClimate ResilienceConservationSustainability
Known for
- protecting wild pollinators and the Amazon rainforest
- achieving world's first legal recognition of an insect's rights
- founding Amazon Research Internacional
- increasing value of native honey by over 500%
- bridging cutting-edge science with ancestral knowledge
- Chemical Biologist
- Storyteller
- National Geographic Explorer
- UNESCO-Al Fozan Laureate
- BBC 100 women
- Author
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