Andrea Fiorela Tello Meza

Andrea Fiorela Tello Meza, currently serves as Coordinator of the Loreto Regional Office of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law since April 2019. 

Andrea is a graduate of the career of Engineer in Tropical Forest Ecology from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon. She has completed specialization studies in “Management of Legal Physical Sanitation of Indigenous Territory and Social Conflict Resolution” at the Universidad del Pacífico, and “Estimation of Opportunity Costs to Prevent Forest Loss in Peru” at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, she has also taken specialized courses in Environmental Law, Transportation and Electricity, Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Anticorruption and Forest Governance, and Strategic Planning for Public Management.

She has 12 years of experience in public management and biodiversity conservation, working in various management bodies of the Regional Government of Loreto. During this period, she led processes of governance and citizen participation, prior consultation, conflict resolution, prioritization of areas for the conservation of biodiversity and ecological and evolutionary processes essential to life, financial sustainability and environmental institutionality. During this period, she was also in charge of directing technical spaces for the creation of new protected areas in the department of Loreto.

Under the same concept, she worked directly with the indigenous population, collaborating with the representative indigenous organizations of Loreto, creating conditions to ensure the legal security of the land, strengthening their communal organization, providing extension and sharing knowledge in the management of their natural resources mainly. 

As coordinator of the Loreto Regional Office, she has led various projects on conservation of protected areas and indigenous peoples, sustainable investments and infrastructure, access to environmental justice, conservation of Loreto’s forest and wildlife heritage, citizen participation, prior consultation, financial sustainability, among others.

“Being an actor that contributes to the strengthening of environmental institutions in the region and in my country is something that motivates me, and I feel that SPDA is a good place to develop my ideas and voice, to multiply actions so that everyone can enjoy our right to live in a healthy and balanced environment, especially the most vulnerable populations.”