Irene Duch Latorre

Irene Duch Latorre

I was born in the Horta neighborhood, on the outskirts of Barcelona, near Collserola. Collserola and the places that I visited with my parents and the escort group were the scenes of my first adventures in nature. Yearning for more nature, I studied Environmental Biology and traveled to Ecuador in the last year of my degree. Ecuador is a captivating country, crossed by the Andes mountain range, with miles and miles of jungle on both sides of the mountains. I had the incredible opportunity to go deep into the jungle and work as a primatologist, closely following all kinds of monkeys and observing their behavior through binoculars. I was very proud to be able to do work similar to that of Jane Goodall, whom I have admired since I was a child. Like Jane, I also went to college for graduate school and a more formal understanding of primatology. In my case, I took a master's degree in Biological Anthropology in the city of Madison, in the north of the United States. And, like Jane, now the time has come for me to leave the jungle and the academy to connect with the boys and girls and young people of Madison, Barcelona and everywhere.