Laura Ippolito

 

Position: Shape—Brasil Committee Member

 

Laura is the biologist responsible for the Aquário de São Paulo. Having graduated from the Universidade Mackenzie, she has been studying animal behaviour since graduation, and has always been involved in the animal welfare cause. She has worked with neurosciences and animal behaviour at the Universidade de São Paulo, and is currently taking a post-graduate course in Marine Vertebrates Husbandry and Conservation.

 

An advocate of animal welfare, Laura believes that environmental enrichment should outreach beyond zoological gardens’ exhibits, reaching places like bioteria, respecting and providing physical and psychological welfare of all animals that, for any reason, may be in captivity.

 

Currently, along with The Shape Brazil, she is starting environmental enrichment initiatives in the Aquário de São Paulo’s exhibits.

 

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