My name is Andreas Schubert
I was born and raised in Grünenplan, a beautiful village, surrounded by mountains and forests, located in southern Lower Saxony, Germany.
As a young man I left Germany to travel the world, mainly in North America. Later on I studied Biology in Göttingen, a University town, about an hour’s drive from my parent’s house. My thesis took me north to the island of Sylt and to the Wadden Sea, one of the most unique landscapes worldwide. It was here where I found my first job as a biologist, first working in scientific research, later on in topics related to the management of the newly created national park Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer.
In 1990 I left for the Caribbean, to work for about 17 years in the Dominican Republic, as advisor of government agencies and non-government organizations related to the protection of nature and management of natural resources and environmental issues, as part of the German technical cooperation.
More than seven years I dedicated to the American crocodile population at Lago Enriquillo, a hypersaline landlocked lake in the south-western part of the Dominican Republic. These crocs were at the brink of extinction. Together with my colleagues from the wildlife department we could stop the decline. The population started to recover.
In 2008 I moved to Ecuador, to keep working in cooperation, helping to improve the environmental sector and promoting sustainable use in the southern regions of the country.
Between 2015 and 2017 I was working in Ethiopia, in the field of biodiversity conservation, focusing on national parks in the Great Rift Valley, which are threatened by unsustainable land use in the surroundings, inducing high pressure on the parks’ resources.
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