Camilo Benitez Riveros

Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring Update of the Paraguayan Chaco

Consulting and technical assistance in geographic information system.
Responsible for the review and validation of vegetation, land use and land cover maps as part of the company's inclusion process in the voluntary carbon market through the VCS and CCB standards administered by Verra.

Landscape connectivity proposal through the modeling of biological corridors in the Paracel properties in the Paraguayan Cerrado.

Paraguay's Forest conservation project (REDD+). Team member of the first successful experience in the voluntary carbon market in Paraguay, with international certification ( VCS and CCB ).

Analysis of land use, land cover and land cover change for the preliminary diagnosis of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway Project.

In charge of the spatial analysis of risk and vulnerability to droughts in 12 districts of Paraguay within the Nañua Paraguay project ¨Promoting strategies and synergies to increase Paraguay's resilience to climate change¨ .

Analysis of greening and browning patterns of vegetation in urban green areas in the metropolitan area of Asunción.
Analysis of biomass content per hectare and carbon storage in selected green areas within the metropolitan area of Asunción.

Training on citizen science for biodiversity conservation to local conservation groups as part of the project "Conservation of the endangered Saffron-cowled blackbird Xanthopsar flavus and other threatened grassland bird species in rapid disappearing natural habitat in southern Paraguay."

Training on the use of technologies and equipment for forest and territory monitoring for young indigenous people and indigenous women in general within the project "Forest and territory conservation from the point of view of indigenous women of the Paraguayan Chaco: Moving towards the consolidation of REDD+ in local territories" .

Landscape ecology analysis for a transboundary ecological corridor (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay) and biodiversity data management and analysis for the project "Recovery and long-term conservation of the Atlantic Forest in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay".

Outsourcing by the lead GIS analyst to support large-scale land cover and land use classifications for REDD+ forest carbon sequestration monitoring and baseline project in Brazil.

Elaboration of thematic maps and geospatial databases for the "Macaw's trail project: Ecotourism development in the Northern Paraguayan Cerrado".

Biodiversity data compilation and implementation of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation for the Project "Strengthening Paraguay's capacity of conservation and wise use of wetlands"

As part of Guyra Paraguay's species conservation program team, support to the program coordinator for the implementation of conservation projects.
Drafting of funding proposals to international institutions.
Analysis of biodiversity data generated in the protected areas managed by Guyra Paraguay.
In charge of biodiversity monitoring for Guyra Paraguay.

Mapping of natural communities and ecosystems of the Paraguayan Cerrado for the Rapid Ecological Assessment for San Luis National Park.

Support for reports writing. Field assistance for camera-trapping work and data management.

Project and field assistant for Macaws monitoring. Project "Improving the conservation status of the remaining Macaw populations in Northeastern Paraguay."

Landscape ecology analysis and habitat suitability modelling for key landbirds within the Project "Saving key winter habitat for Migratory Landbirds in the Paraguayan Chaco"

Development of deforestation scenarios for the Paraguayan Chaco (from up to 2050) for the project "Collaboration for forest and agriculture – Transparency component: Deforestation scenarios,"

Annual Land Cover and Land Use Mapping of the Gran Chaco Americano" for the MapBiomas initiative , which involves a collaborative network of specialists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay in land use, satellite remote sensing, GIS and programming. Work performed through cloud processing and automated classifiers developed and operated from the Google Earth Engine platform to generate a historical series of annual land cover and land use maps of the Gran Chaco Americano.

Monthly Monitoring of Land Use and Land Cover Change, Fire and Water Cover Variation in the Gran Chaco Americano.

Technical support for the analysis of geospatial data generated as part of the research project "National biodiversity vision and ecoregional assessment: ecology at the service of conservation decisions and analysis of habitat fragmentation" .

Professional Internship in the Landscape and habitat conservation program of Guyra Paraguay. Support on different tasks related to mapping, spatial analysis, data management and reports writing.