Rony A. Villanueva Fajardo has been working with indigenous communities and rural stakeholders for more than nine years in an important area for the conservation of natural resources and community forestry. He started work with El Centro para el Desarrollo del Indígena Amazónico (CEDIA) in 2014 as a specialist in Natural Resource Management and participatory conservation for the implementation of the expansion of the Airo Pai Communal Reserve.