Alfredo Ortega-Rubio is Titular Researcher at the Northwest Center for Biological Research in Mexico. He has received three National Research Prizes from the hands of the Mexican President for his conservation efforts: the 2013 Lazaro Cardenas Award; the 2003 Nature Conservation National Excellence Award; and the 1993 Forestry and Wildlife National Excellence Award. He has directed 167 projects of scientific research and resource management, among them those that developed the basis to generate the Presidential Decree that established 3 of the largest Mexican Biosphere Reserves. He has generated 234 published scientific papers and published 30 books and 134 book chapters. He has been awarded the International Prize INTERCIENCIA 2007 in the category of Biodiversity Conservation in the American Continent. In 2011, he was awarded the prize for Scientific Research in the state of Baja California, Sur.