Josué Collins

Community Officer

Josué was passionate about the ocean and marine life from a very young age, which led him to study for a degree in Marine Biology. While finishing his degree, he completed an internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute was also a research assistant at the Water and Land Foundation monitoring and working on sea turtle conservation in Playa Mata Oscura, Veracruz.
In the latter, he became more passionate about conservation and since then dedicated himself to the conservation and protection of sea turtles, working in several beaches of the Panamanian Pacific, where between 2018-2021 he was in charge of the Project for the Protection and Conservation of sea turtles, in the Ecological Reserve Los Panamaes.
Josué is currently a community officer in Pixvae, Veraguas Province.