Maikel Cañizares Morera is a Cuban ornithologist, conservationist, and wildlife photographer. He began working at the Ecological Reserve in Banao, central Cuba, where he developed many conservation projects with endemic fauna, with special focus on the management and conservation of the Cuban Parrot and the Cuban Parakeet. He has taught biology students at the Havana University, and has published several conservation and research papers and is chapter author of six books. He is currently President of the Cuban Zoology Society.