Carlos Augusto Peres (Portuguese: [ˈkahluz ɐwˈɡuʃtu ˈpɛɾiʃ]) (born 1963) is a Brazilian field biologist and conservation biologist who works in the Amazon rainforest and other neotropical forest regions on questions involving wildlife and biological conservation. His research interests are in the large-scale patterns of large-bodied vertebrate diversity and abundance in Amazonian forests; the effects of different forms on human disturbance, including hunting, habitat fragmentation and wildfires, on Amazonian forest vertebrates; and reserve selection and design criteria in relation to regional gradients of biodiversity value and implementation costs. He currently co-directs three research programs on natural resource management in the eastern, southern and western Amazon basin focusing on t