WHSRNews Special Note

We are pleased to inform you that the Shorebird Recovery Project (SRP), an initiative of Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, now has a Coordinator for the Southern Cone Region. Mr. Diego Luna Quevedo was selected for this strategic position and began work on 1 July 2009.

Diego was born in Uruguay, and has been based in Chile since 1998. For the past 10 years, he has dedicated himself to numerous conservation projects through consulting and research. He has extensive experience in directing regional initiatives across Latin America, as well as with natural resources management and reduction of socio-environmental conflicts.  

Diego’s previous positions reflect these interests. He has served as the Executive Director of the Corporation for Wetland Environments of Chile, been a member of the Latin American Future Foundation’s Program for the Prevention and Management of Socio-environmental Conflicts; and the creator and advisor of the Program for the Sustainable Use of Wetlands for the National Petroleum Company of Chile. In this last role, he led in the designation of Bahia Lomas, Tierra del Fuego, as the first WHSRN Site in Chile.

With an office in Santiago, Chile, Diego will have responsibilities for the SRP’s strategic functions in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil, including collaborative relationships among our partners and key stakeholders for the conservation of shorebirds. He will lead in the design and implementation of strategies and action plans of our “3-S” approach of Site-based Conservation, building the Science foundation, and explicit Success measures, as well as raising public awareness. His email contact is diego.luna@manomet.org.

On behalf of Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project and the WHSRN Executive Office, we welcome Diego to our team and we wish him the best of success in this new conservation challenge. We have no doubt that shorebirds will benefit from his acceptance of this position.

Charles D. Duncan
Director, Shorebird Recovery Project
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
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