César Luis Barrio-Amorós

César Luis Barrio-Amorós is a Spanish anthropologist established in Latin America for 30 years. He lived in Venezuela, developing his passion for taxonomy, describing 51 new species to science, mostly anurans but also salamanders, skinks and geckos. There with other young naturalists created the Fundación AndígenA, an NGO devoted to preserve endangered species, such as harlequin toads of the genus Atelopus. As part of multidisciplinary expeditions he explored some of the most remote landscapes on Earth, the tepuis or table mountains of the Lost World (Pantepui), becoming specialist in its herpetofauna; he also worked 10 years with anacondas, turtles and other SouthAmerican herps. He moved to Costa Rica in 2011 remaining to date. Now is more focused in teaching and lecturing about snakes to local communities, leading expeditions and tours in all Latin America through the company CRWild (www.crwild.com). César leads two main projects in Costa Rica on endangered species, one about the Variable harlequin toad (Atelopus varius) and other about the black-headed bushmaster (Lachesis melanocephala). In total, César published more than 270 articles, both scientific, popular and chapters of books. He usually offers free lectures about many herping topics while travelling.