BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL - Key Persons
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- Policy and Advocacy Manager
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- Migratory Birds and Flyways Programme Manager
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- West Africa Marine Conservation Programme Coordinator
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- Administration Unit Coordinator
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- BNT Avian Science Officer Dr Esther Bertram, CEO of Falklands Conservation Natalie Blachford, Volunteer at Belize Audubon Society
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- Director of Communications
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Honorary Vice - President
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- Member of the Executive Team
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- Senior Finance & Administration Officer
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- Sub Regional Project Officer for CEPF Regional Implementation Team
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- Atlantic Flyway Initiative Manager
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Regional Director for the Americas
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- Regional Director for Middle East
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- Senior Vulture Conservation Officer
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Director Partnership & Regions
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- Policy & Communications Coordinator
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- Fundraising Consultant Based in the Netherlands
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- Senior Vulture Conservation Officer - Southern Africa
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- Fundraising and Development Officer
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- Africa Forest Coordinator
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- Regional Director
- Regional Director for Pacific
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- Team Leader for CEPF ( Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund )
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- Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Director of Science, Policy & Information
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- Honorary Vice - President
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- Honorary Vice - President
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- Honorary Vice - President
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- Coastal Seabirds Project Officer
Pak Thale is a coastal area dominated by salt pans. It is recognised as a priority site on the East Asian-Australasian flyway as a regular wintering site of several globally threatened species, including the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. It is managed by our Partner in Thailand, the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand where they demonstrate sustainable co-existence between nature and local livelihoods.
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- Chief Executive
- Chief Executive Officer
Patricia Zurita is CEO of BirdLife International, the world's largest nature conservation partnership of civil society organizations. BirdLife comprises more than 115 national partners representing every continent. Trained as both an environmental scientist and economist, Zurita believes that nature is the underlying system that supports all of humanity. She strives to work with governments, business and local communities to conserve and restore nature and address the climate crisis for the benefit of humanity and the planet.
Zurita was born and raised in Ecuador, and she is the first woman from a developing country to lead an international conservation organization. She believes that for conservation to succeed, the role of nature (including nature conservation and restoration) must be mainstreamed in all sectors of our economy. This work must be led at the local level and must be beneficial to local communities. Equally and critically important, it must then result in meaningful changes at national, regional and global levels to enable our survival and prosperity.
Before coming to BirdLife, Zurita served as executive director for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund and held positions at Conservation International and the World Resources Institute. Zurita holds a master's degree in environmental management (natural resource economics) from Duke University and an undergraduate degree in environmental science from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Zurita resides in Cambridge, England, with her husband and twin daughters.
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- Regional Director
- Ag. Regional Director for Africa
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Director of Conservation
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- Finance and Admin Officer
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- Vulture Conservation Coordinator - Africa
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- Regional Director for Asia
White Storks are tall, long-necked wading birds with long red legs and a straight, pointed red bill. In 2006 the BirdLife Partnership launched the Spring Alive project, which encouraged children to post signings of Storks and other birds onto a website to help track bird migrations from Europe to Africa. Our Polish Partner OTOP manage the Spring Alive website.
White Storks soar for huge distances using rising warm air currents. As these warm currents do not form over water, Storks avoid the Mediterranean Sea, which can lead them into further danger as they are illegally shot. Our partner SPNL works tirelessly to end the illegal killing of birds in Lebanon. For years, they have fought for stronger law enforcement against acts of wildlife crime in the country.
White Storks arrive in Southern Sudan or Eastern Chad between September and October. They take this slight detour to feast on the swarms of insects that appear after the rainy season. The BirdLife Migratory Soaring Birds project showed how the use of pesticides and other chemicals have a major direct and indirect impact on the numbers of Storks through poisoning or a decrease in the insects Storks like to feed on.