Federico P. Kacoliris is a biologist and conservation practitioner who has led species recovery programs in Argentina for more than twenty years. He is Principal researcher at CONICET, and is based at the Herpetology Section of the La Plata Museum (UNLP), he founded and presides over Fundación Somuncura, which protects threatened species and ecosystems across Patagonia. He has authored more than eighty scientific publications, co-authored Argentina’s national Red List of herpetofauna, and contributed to over one hundred IUCN Red List assessments. In 2025 he received a Whitley Award for his work recovering the Critically Endangered Valcheta frog.