Farah Carrasco Rueda

Farah collaborates with the Field Museum as a conservation ecologist, providing ecological and taxonomic expertise on mammals, as well as working with government, academic, and Indigenous partners to advance applied conservation efforts in the Andes Amazon region and in the Guiana Shield. She has participated in the biological and social rapid inventories in Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and Guyana (RI31, RI32, RI33, RI34). Her research has focused on examining human impacts on mammal species and valuating the effectiveness of conservation and mitigation measures. She is also a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Beyond her professional work, she actively participates in volunteer networks that promote women's empowerment and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in science and conservation.

Publications

• Carrasco-Rueda, F., A. Arévalo-Sandi, I. Junqueira,  J. Moraes Pereira Kokama, A, Vargas Adão, J. Soares Fidelis, E. Vargas Adão, W. R. Spironello e / and M. N. Ferreira da Silva. 2026. Mamíferos / Mammals. Chapter of Campbell, J. M., R. E. Oakley, C. Rutt, N. C. A. Pitman, and Fernanda Werneck (eds.), 2026. Brasil: Alto Rio Içá — Biological and Social Rapid Inventory 33. Chicago: Field Museum  of Natural History. https://www.rapidinventories.fieldmuseum.org/_files/ugd/d0d95f_b8163c83a412425d93bf5bd25b1ec336.pdf
• Rodrigues Barreto, J., Palmeririm, A. F., Sangermano, F., Carrasco-Rueda, F. et al. 2025. Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status. Communications Earth & Environment 6: 719. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02620-7
• Rodrigues Barreto, J., Palmeririm, A. F., Carrasco-Rueda, F. et al. 2025. A Pan-Amazonian dataset integrating 20 years of multiple disease cases and landscape changes. Scientific Data 12: 1409. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05656-8
• Carrasco-Rueda, F., Hallett, M. T., Harris,A-E., Yang, H., Stewart, A., Hendricks, O., Washington, W., Suse, P. and Yaimo, S. 2025. “Mammals.” In Guyana: Acarai-Corentyne Corridor, edited by Nigel Pitman, Cameron Rutt, Lesley S. de Souza, R. Elliott Oakley, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Sophie Picq, and Jeremy M. Campbell, 138–150. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394032803_Mammals_-_RI_32_Guyana_Acarai-Corentyne_Corridor