Paul Salaman

Paul George William Salaman (born January 27, 1971 in Australia ) is a British ornithologist and conservationist of Australian origin.

Life

Salaman started out as a bird watcher in Australia at the age of six before moving to England with his family. In 1979 he made the acquaintance of David Attenborough , who sparked his enthusiasm for natural history and conservation . At the age of 16, he was a volunteer overseer at a local nature reserve in Dungeness . From 1984 to 1989 he graduated from Raynes Park High School. At the age of 17 Salaman completed intensive two-year bird ringing training , which he later benefited from during his ornithological field studies in South America. In 1990 he made bird watching excursions to Southeast Asia, Australasia and the United States, which he toured for six months.

In 1994 he received a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental biology from Anglia Polytechnic University . As a bachelor student, Salaman completed a number of research expeditions through Colombia. His three years of work in the field resulted in the creation of the Parque Nacional de Munchique and several nature reserves, including the Las Tangaras Bird Reserve, the Pangan Nature Reserve, and the Arrierito Antioqueño Nature Reserve.

In 1998 he was one of the co-founders of the Colombian organization Fundación ProAves , one of the most effective nature conservation organizations in South America. In early 1998 he founded together with Niels Krabbe the Projeto Ognorhynchus , a conservation program to protect the yellow-eared parrot , from 1997 only a population of 24 copies was known. In April 2001, Salaman, F. Gary Stiles and scientists from the Natural History Museum and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia founded the BioMap project for data collection and classification of the Colombian avifauna , which recorded 230,000 specimens by July 2005. The results are used in the record of bird distribution in Colombia as well as in bird conservation decision making. In September 2001, he was with the dissertation The study of an understory avifauna community in to Andean Premontane Pluvial Forest for Ph.D. PhD from the University of Oxford. His mentors included Christopher Perrins and Ian Newton . He then received a postgraduate scholarship from the Natural History Museum and from June 2002 to June 2005 he worked for Conservation International as coordinator for biodiversity research in the Andes. From June 2005 to May 2008 he was director of the American Bird Conservancy's international program .

Salaman is a member of the Amphibian Survival Alliance Global Council. In 2009 he joined the Rainforest Trust as Nature Conservation Director and in January 2012 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He is also a member of the Royal Geographical Society .

Salaman described several new bird taxa from Colombia, including the Colombian vireo ( Vireo masteri ), which he discovered in 1991 at the age of 19, the Negretzaun king ( Henicorhina negreti ) (with Steven L. Hilty , Paul Coopmans and Thomas M. Donegan ), the Braunkappenkotinga ( Lipaugus weberi ), the Magdalenatapaculo ( Scytalopus rodriguezi ) and the subspecies Basileuterus tristriatus sanlucasensis of Three strips Forest singer and Grallaria milleri gilesi the chest band Ameisenpitta .

literature

• John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0951496589 , p. 324
• Erik Hirschfeld: Portrait of Paul Salaman In: The Rare Birds Yearbook 2008, MagDig Media Ltd., Shrewsbury 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552607-3-5 , pp. 28-30

Web links

• Official profile on LinkedIn
• Profile at the Rainforest Trust
• Short biography at Parrots International
• Curriculum Vitae at BioMap