Dr. Gabriella Fredriksson

Gabriella is a conservation biologist who has mainly been working in South East Asia for the past 30 years. She finalized her PhD on the effects of El Niño and forest fires on the ecology of sun bears in Indonesian Borneo and worked on developing multi-stakeholder management of protected areas and adding forest to the protected area network in Sumatra. Gabriella is still actively working on habitat conservation through community protection teams in East Kalimantan and helps run an innovative conservation education centre there focusing on raising awareness among local communities. She is further interested in wildlife surveys, monitoring techniques, and training/capacity building of local conservation NGOs and students. Gabriella is member of the Sun Bear Expert Team of the IUCN/SSC Bear Specialist Group and a guest lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.