Biography

Fukushima Ramirez was born in 1984 in Squamish, a town near Vancouver. After a lonely adolescence surrounded by Bighorn Sheeps and Squirrels, he became interested in the conservation of the biodiversity of his region. He completed his higher studies in biology, specializing in toxic heavy metals and the study of metallothionein as biomarkers of environmental stress. He graduated as a doctor with the highest cum laude qualification with the study of the effects of metal pollution on the American red crab. His research in this field led him to travel to Guatemala, Japan, Estonia, England and Portugal, where he married the Lisbon researcher Martim Falero.