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María Elena Barragan @Nobisch

Herpetologist, herp lover working with vipers in education and conservation in the neotropics. Co-author of the book Venomous Snakes from Ecuador.

Joined September 2014
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Sr. Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional @NielsOlsen Soy bióloga, trabajo con serpientes y es penoso escuchar insultos como el que usted usó días atrás. Me encantaría que visite @VivariumQuito Sr. presidente de la asamblea @NielsOlsen instagram.com/p/DYmCqI0DOJM/…

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En el día de la serpientes compartimos el siguiente reportaje. Gracias a @mongabaylatam @ana1alvarado
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🐍🌎#DíaMundialDeLasSerpientes ¿Sabías que las serpientes son más tranquilas de lo que piensas? Expertos de Ecuador, Costa Rica y Bolivia le apuestan a transformar el miedo en respeto hacia estos reptiles clave para los ecosistemas. 1/10 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/4dte26kr
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Queremos celebrar a todas las niñas y mujeres en la ciencia, y en especial en la Herpetología. Invitamos a llenar la siguiente encuesta en línea, si tú área de trabajo es la Herpetología en Ecuador. facebook.com/share/v/1A9nTxu…
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On International Snakebite Awareness Day #ISBAD2024 the Snakebite Community Engagement Network aims to share community efforts, discuss and implement effective strategies among snakebite specialists around the world. Follow and share snakebitecommunityengagement…

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So proud of being part of that amazing initiative. Thanks @ItzueCS @SinlanPoo @Umi. Sorry I couldn’t join you…!!!
Global Women in Herpetology@GlobalWomenHerp
5 Aug 2024
Global Women in Herpetology booth at the World Congress of Herpetology! 🐸👩🏻‍🔬🐍👩🏾‍🏫🐢🧕🏽🦎👩🏿‍🔬 We will be here all week, please stop by! #GWH #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHerpetology #WCH10 #WCH #HERper #Herpetology #WomenInScience
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Thank you @Orianne Society for providing the space to spotlight the efforts towards snake conservation in Ecuador-South America facebook.com/share/p/no6EvzD…
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Thank you @GlobalWomenHerp and Julia Back for the amazing job, you’ve done.
Global Women in Herpetology@GlobalWomenHerp
13 Jun 2024
Meet Julia Back, a #gwhartist based in Porto Alegre, South Brazil! Back is a #Brazilian illustrator and full-time freelancer since 2010. She contributed portraits of María Elena Barragan Paladines from Ecuador, Ximena Bernal from Colombia, and Camila R. Ferrara from Brazil. (1/2)
GWH Artist Feature: Julia Back! Brazil. Pages of the GWH book with the portraits of herpetologist Maria Elena Barragan Paladines of Ecuador and her personal narrative entitled "The Golden Cobra", Ximena Bernal of Colombia and her narratrive "Beloved Land of Frogs" and for Camila R. Ferrara of Brazil and her narrative entitled "The Turtles and Me". The photo of Julia is in the bottom middle, and she is smiling at the camera, with her hair hanging loose to her shoulders. A bookcase is behind her. Link to her website https://juliaback.com/

ALT GWH Artist Feature: Julia Back! Brazil. Pages of the GWH book with the portraits of herpetologist Maria Elena Barragan Paladines of Ecuador and her personal narrative entitled "The Golden Cobra", Ximena Bernal of Colombia and her narratrive "Beloved Land of Frogs" and for Camila R. Ferrara of Brazil and her narrative entitled "The Turtles and Me". The photo of Julia is in the bottom middle, and she is smiling at the camera, with her hair hanging loose to her shoulders. A bookcase is behind her. Link to her website https://juliaback.com/
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The reproductive biology of snakes of the genus Lachesis has been poorly documented. Watch this footage of a female, sharing a hole with another specimen. It has remained here for the last week. We are very excited about what this could mean Follow us, share and support…!!
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After four months of research we can see some interactions between the female Bushmaster or Guascama (Lachesis acrochorda) and an agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). We know so little about snakes’s interactions with other species in their habitat. Please share: instagram.com/conviviendocon…
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Interactions between wildlife fauna are few. We can see when a sloth has come down to the floor of the forest to urinate and excrete, in front of the bushmaster hiding place. We cannot stop marveling at these in one of the most diverse forests in the world.
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This incredible moments captured for the first time in the world and about a wild specimen of Bushmaster recently released in northwestern Ecuador. An armadillo walking near the Queen’s hiding place. Please follow us and support acortar.link/d9Cvd4
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Have you ever seen a Bushmaster, the biggest viper in the world, yawning…?? This and more footage about the day by day life of this amazing snake in the Chocoan region of Ecuador. Follow and support acortar.link/d9Cvd4
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Please share and help us to make it possible….!! First ever footage of a wild Chocoan bushmaster. facebook.com/share/r/KxLQKjB…
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instagram.com/p/C5RK5tsrCW_/… Follow this amazing project for venomous snake conservation.

Proyecto de Conservación: Conviviendo con la Guascama (@conviviendoconlaguascama) • Instagram photo

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Six years waiting for this, and after unimaginable barriers….. finally…!!!!!
El Universo
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19 Mar 2024
Científicos ecuatorianos usan sistema de rastreo para seguir a la serpiente verrugosa del Chocó ow.ly/4EwL50QWM8g
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María Elena Barragan retweeted
Save The Snakes@savethesnakes
8 Mar 2024
It's #InternationalWomensDay & we're celebrating the amazing women who study reptiles & amphibians! Women in Herpetology by @globalwomenherp features inspiring stories of female herpetologists around the world. We have a copy at our Snake Conservation Center, do you have yours?
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María Elena Barragan retweeted
Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions@CSRIatLSTM
6 Mar 2024
Read this article, co-written by LSTM PhD student Camille Abada for @ConversationUK, about the discovery of the 95Mat5 antibody, which has huge potential as a game-changing treatment for snakebite envenoming. ⬇️ #Research theconversation.com/were-a-s…

We’re a step closer to having a universal antivenom for snake bites – new study

We’re still using century-old technology to make snake antivenom. A method fit for the 21st century is on the horizon.

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María Elena Barragan retweeted
Ecuador_OWSD@Ecuador_OWSD
10 Feb 2024
Buen momento para recordar el legado de las mujeres pioneras en la ciencia y su lucha por la igualdad de oportunidades en este campo. @OEIEcuador @CientificasEC @ciespal @OwsdSecretariat @Nobisch #11F #MujeresEnCiencia #diadelamujerylaninaenciencia #MujeresCientificas
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The first radio-telemetry project done in Ecuador towards the conservation of the bushmaster (Lachesis acrochorda ) Thanks to the support @savethesnakes
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Thank you @savethesnakes for supporting women carrying out education and outreach. I am honored for receiving your grant Please follow us and support our projects vivarium.org.ec

Save The Snakes@savethesnakes
14 Nov 2023
The Save The Snakes Wildlife Conservation Ecotour to Ecuador is off to an incredible start! 🐍 🇪🇨 Today we visited our Conservation Partner María Elena Barragán-Paladines in Quito.
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