Fellow
Primavera Jurgenne Honculada
Chief Mangrove Scientific Advisor
Current nationality
Philippines (the)
Current country of residence
Philippines (the)
Affiliation / Institution
Zoological Society of London
Biodata
Primavera (PhD in marine science, University of the Philippines Diliman; MA in zoology, Indiana University, USA) taught at Mindanao State University, but a rebellion made her growing family flee to relative peace in Iloilo, central Philippines, where she worked at Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department. Since her studies in the 1980s, she rang early warning bells on the perils of unplanned aquaculture. Her research shifted to the mangrove-penaeid shrimp connection and mangrove-friendly aquaculture for which she was conferred a PhD honoris causa by Stockholm University (2004). The citation read: … she has shown that mangroves are key areas for recruitment of fish and shrimp and that development of conventional shrimp farming may have far reaching negative economic and social implications… [To] create sustainable alternatives she is now doing research on … integrated farming of shrimp, fish, crabs and mangrove. She has published ~170 scientific papers, reviews, manuals, books and other publications, including the Handbook of Mangroves in the Philippines – Panay (2005 Outstanding Book Award by National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines).
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Aquaculture, shrimp biology and culture, mangrove rehabilitation and conservation, beach forests
ELECTED
2023
Place of birth
Butuan City
Country of birth
Philippines
DATE OF BIRTH
22
February
1947
Section
02. Biological Sciences
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Philippines (the)
Public contact information
List of publications
Last updated on 12/07/2023