Eduardo is studying for the PhD in Geography, focusing on the political ecology of conservation, development and Indigenous rights. Born in Lima, in the coast of Peru, he had a brief career in the Peruvian not-for-profit sector, which concluded with two years working in the Manu province of Peru’s southern Amazon. After this, Eduardo began his research about road expansion in Manu as part of the MSc in Environment and Development at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The dissertation that resulted from his master’s has been published as a short book with Dr. Marcela Palomino-Schalscha as co-author. Eduardo’s continued interest in the case of Manu, where some of the world’s most biodiverse protected areas are surrounded by poverty-stricken communities that depend on logging for a living, has taken him to focus his PhD research on place-making in the Manu province.