Costa Rican Roberto Salom won the international ‘William T. Hornaday Award’. The recognition is made for the contribution to the conservation of mammals and habitats.
The award is given by the American Society of Mammalogists in the United States. Salom achieved recognition after a series of investigations on jaguars in the country, in the sub-broiler Barbilla-Destierro.
We do an investigation on one of jaguar’s critical points in our country. We are seeing the state of the medium and large mammals in the corridor known as “the passage of the Jaguar” and in two areas that want to connect: the Central Volcanic Range and Cordillera de Talamanca,”
said the specialist.
Salom is the director of the Panthera project in Costa Rica and is the Mesoamerican coordinator of the Jaguar Program.
The research also seeks to measure the potential impacts of the Reventazón hydroelectric project that lies within this biological sub-corridor.
It is the largest energy production project in Central America, so we tried to measure the impacts of the dam and the lagoon that was formed,”
said the 38-year-old Costa Rican.
Salom said that since 2013, work has been carried out jointly with the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) to carry out mitigation work such as forestation and friendly behavior of neighboring farms.
Felines have always been my passion and since 2008 I work with Panthera . This area was of great importance to connect jaguars at a national level and that provided a connection between Nicaragua and Panama,”
said Salom.