The Mexican painter beatrizpadilla has devoted her life to the environment, founding and leading projects such as the design and construcFon of Mexico’s first transcon/nental solar racecar, Mexico’s and Guatemala’s intercollegiate electric vehicle racing championships, Mexico’s Advanced Ba9ery Consor/um (for electric vehicles), and the producFon of comic books for wilderness conserva/on. In 2009 she founded the Forest of Water Ini.a.vefor the conservaFon of central Mexico’s main source of water, leading the iniFaFve from 2019 to 2025 up to the stage when it became a full-fledged governmental naFonal priority. In 2005 she began her Wilderness Conserva.on Pain.ng Expedi.ons portraying in situ, throughout 35 expediFons to date, endangered and protected wild areas in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the American ConFnent. Her painFngs have been exhibited in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico. She currently focuses on painFng the sounds of biodiversity, parFcularly vocalizaFons of whales. In 2025, she launched the Voices of the Ocean communicaFons campaign against the industrializaFon of the Gulf of California and to support its recogniFon as a Habitat of Cri3cal Importance. She enjoys writng short stories.