Global Tree Specialist Group Members

The IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group (GTSG) has over 80 expert members from botanic gardens, herbaria, universities and both governmental and non-governmental organisations. Find out more about the specialists who help to inform the conservation work we carry out.

Joel Timyan

Societe Audubon Haiti

Maria de los Ángeles La Torre-Cuadros

Management & conservation of tropical forests through understanding of natural & social processes

Faculty of Forest Sciences, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru

Dr. Carmen Ulloa Ulloa

Andean Flora

Missouri Botanical Garden, USA

Jose Luis Vivero Pol

Trees of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Universite Catholique de Louvain

Lahiru S. Wijedasa

Pursuing a PhD in Southeast Asian Peatswamp forest conservation and revising the taxonomy of Memecylon (Melastomataceae) in Indochina and Malesia.

National University of Singapore & ConservationLinks

Dr. Peter Wilkie

Sapotaceae, taxonomy, systematics, conservation

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK

Nelson Zamora

Herbarium of the National Institute of Biodiversity of Costa Rica

Freddy Santiago Zenteno Ruiz

Woody plants of Bolivia

Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB)

Nyree Zerega

Director and Senior Lecturer, Plant Biology & Conservation Graduate Program, Herbarium Director and Plant Systematist

Northwestern University &Chicago; Botanic Garden