Iván Llerandi-Román is a Supervisory Fish & Wildlife biologist in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office. He holds a Master’s degree in Fish and Wildlife Management from the Mississippi State University and B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Iván has divided his professional career as a wildlife biologist between the Puerto Rico Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, where he coordinated the Puerto Rican parrot Recovery Program and the Technical Assistance for Wildlife Conservation project in Puerto Rico, and as a Habitat Restoration Programs Caribbean Coordinator and Supervisory Fish and Wildlife Biologist in the USFWS, where he coordinates habitat restoration, and threatened and endangered species recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. His work links habitat restoration, T&E species recovery, landscape level conservation, anthropogenic activities, ecosystem services, agriculture, and socio-economic factors to maintain healthy trust species populations, conservation engagement and the ecological integrity of ecosystems.