Amélia Frazão-Moreira, is a PhD in Social Anthropology (ISCTE, Portugal; 2000), associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at NOVA FCSH (NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal; since 2001), and senior researcher at CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal; since its foundation, 2008). She was president of CRIA (October 2012 to October 2015) and coordinator of the Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography Research Group (January 2016 to January 2019). In this research centre she is currently head of the Environmental Anthropology and Behavioural Ecology Laboratory (LAE). She was member (expert) of the Evaluation Body of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention of UNESCO, representing Western Europe and North America (2015 to 2018 cycles) and was Vice-President of this Evaluation Body in 2017. Her fields of research and expertise are Environmental Anthropology, Ethnoecology, and Ethnobiology. She has coordinated or participated in different research projects on the relationships between humans, non-humans, and the environment, questioning heritage and biodiversity conservation programs in Portuguese and African contexts (Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Mozambique). Amongst her most relevant works is included “Plantas and 'Pecadores'. Percepções da Natureza em África” (Livros Horizonte) based on a deep ethnography of the relationship of the Nalu people (Guinea-Bissau) with plants and nature. She is the author of several book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in international journals.