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Although living the first two decades of my life in a huge metropolis, such as Sao Paulo, my passion for wildlife and nature led me to search for different ways where I could be in a closer contact with those elements. Studying biology was the first option, something that allowed me to study the ecology of cichlid fish and snakes during my undergraduate course, and work in different areas inside the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. But, the urge to have a stronger and more realistic experience with wildlife and nature led me to work with eco-tourism and scientific research in more remote and pristine areas in Brazil: first the pantanal, a seasonally flooded prairie area, and, later, to the Amazon where I’ve been working for seven years already. In such an incredible region I have been fortunate to experience, among other things, living for more than one year in a floating house in a várzea forest, spending seven months living and working among Baniwa Indians in a white-sand forest region (Msc dissertation), spending eight months working inside Manu National Park and with Matsigenka indigenous people and working for seven months to help establish new conservation units and a new biodiversity monitoring in the Brazilian Amazonas state. I’m now spending most of my days in the Amazonian Jurua River area, focusing my efforts in studying different aspects of the influence of anthropogenic and environmental variables on the land vertebrate community.
Publications
Endo, Whaldener ; Peres, C.A. ; Salas E ; Mori S ; Sanchez JL ; Shepard, G.H. ; Pacheco V ; Yu, D.W. . Game vertebrate densities in hunted and nonhunted forest sites in Manu National Park, Peru. Biotropica (Lawrence, KS), in press.
Marinelli, C. E., H. S. A. Carlos, R. Batista, F. Rohe, F. Waldez, T. Kasecker, W. Endo, R. Godoy. 2007. O programa de monitoramento da biodiversidade e do uso de recursos naturais em unidades de conservação estaduais do amazonas. Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia, v. 1, p. 60-64.
Endo, W., M. Amend, L. C. Fleck. 2007. Oxybelis fulgidus. Prey. Herpetological Review, v. 38, p. 209, 2007.
Marques, O. A. V., A. Eterovic, W. Endo. 2001. Seasonal activity of Snakes in the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Amphibia-Reptilia, v.22, n. 1, p. 103-111, 201.
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