![]() ![]() ![]() Ramírez started her research about hummingbirds and the plants they use as nectar resources in the Munchique National Park, (southwest of Colombia), in the only location of Andean Cloud Forest where an endangered, endemic hummingbird species, the Colorful Puffleg ( Eriocnemis mirabilis), has been spotted in the present day. Munchique National Park, ColombiaEriocnemis mirabilis getty Hummingbirds and PlantsĪnother Colombian researcher focused on hummingbirds is Mónica Ramírez Burbano, who looks at how these birds interact with the plants they feed on. ![]() "It is difficult to know what to do to change the system," Rueda-Uribe says, "but for now I think that my most important responsibility is to be supportive to colleagues and students that I know may be facing similar or worse challenges." "In terms of biodiversity research, this power divide is like a huge wall we have built for ourselves, one that impedes us from harnessing different viewpoints and solutions to face the complexities of global crises," she says, adding that she reflects constantly about her role as a young female researcher from Latin America. Rueda-Uribe says researchers based in the Global South are asked to do more with less resources continuously face social, political and economic challenges that researchers in the Global North do not have to deal with and often have a language barrier to cross for their research to get noticed. "I got a scholarship to do my MSc in Lund University (Sweden) and then continue to my PhD at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland)," she says. Rueda-Uribe says that she instead worked in science communication and teaching, until she met researchers at the Alexander von Humboldt Research Institute that inspired her to go back to research. "I was delighted by every class and field trip as an undergraduate student in Biology, but I was then put off continuing a career in academia because I could not see clear links between being a researcher and having true impact in the real world, that is, the possibility of introducing change in people's everyday lives." ![]() She would go on to study biology as an undergraduate student, but didn't immediately feel the call of research. Rueda-Uribe was born in Bogota, Colombia, but at a young age, her family moved to Brazil and during a period of seven years they traversed the country, from the waterfalls of Iguaçú in the south to the inundated rainforests of the Amazon in the north. Cristina Rueda-Uribe in Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza in Colombia. ![]()
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