Dr. Davi Teles
- Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Active: - ongoing
Davi is the EDGE Regional Manager for the Americas. He provides training and supervision for current EDGE fellows and assists EDGE alums in this region. He also supports EDGE projects, such as the long-term monitoring and community engagement work for the pygmy sloth in Panama. Davi firmly believes in local capacity building as an effective conservation tool and has been directly involved in biodiversity conservation research and action since 2007. He coordinated part of a community-based monitoring program inside Amazonian protected areas and, more recently, was involved in evaluating the influence of politics on environmental protection in Brazil.