Dr. Teresa Manera de Bianco
Laureate
- Organisation
- Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca
- Function
- Teacher of Paleontology
- Country
- Argentina
- Field of work
- Sustainable Land Management, General interest in environmental issues, Biodiversity / Nature Conservation
- Awards
- Rolex Awards, 2004
Teresa Manera’s research interests focus on quaternary mammal and bird footprints from Pehuen-Co site in Buenos Aires province (Argentina). For a project to protect this site she won the Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2004. As a consequence of her work, the Government of Buenos Aires approved a bill making the Pehuen-Co site a natural reserve in 2005. At present, Manera takes part in the scientists' committee that advises the Government in the efforts being made in order to ask the UNESCO for including the area of this reserve into the list of World Heritage.