Diego is the director of Image Conservation, an initiative that seeks to integrate participatory science, environmental education and communication of community-based processes in the most biodiverse places of the Neo tropics. Diego has proposed this approach as a conceptual framework and has successfully applied it in rural communities in Colombia and Costa Rica. He is convinced that access, use and generation of knowledge is a human right and this cognitive justice is the opportunity for the development of vulnerable communities. Diego is a biologist and has a master's degree in wildlife conservation from the National University of Costa Rica.