Gabriella Fredriksson

Sun Bear Expert Team Co-Chair

Gabriella is a conservation biologist who has mainly been working in Indonesia for more than 20 years. She finalized her PhD at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, focusing on the effects of El Niño and forest fires on the ecology of sun bears. She is currently actively working on habitat conservation in Sumatra and Kalimantan, has pioneered the development of an innovative conservation education center in East Kalimantan, and is further interested in wildlife surveys and monitoring techniques, training/capacity building of local conservation NGOs and students.