Paul Salaman
Paul George William Salaman (born 27 January 1971) is an ornithologist and conservationist based the Rainforest Trust, overseeing biodiversity conservation across Latin America.
==Life==a D.Phil. from the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford studying threatened bird populations in southwest Colombia. A post-doc at the Natural History Museum from 2002 established Project BioMap, before coordinating biodiversity science for Conservation International across the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot. From 2005 to 2008, Salaman was director of international programs at American Bird Conservancy.
Awards
- Young Ornithologist of the Year in 1988 by Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
- BP Conservation Award overall winner in 1991
- Student Lecture Award at the Edward Grey Institute for Ornithology 1993
- Ness Award: National Young Explorer of the Year by the Royal Geographical Society (1995)
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Bird taxa described by Paul Salaman and other authors
- Choco vireo (Vireo masteri) (1996)
- Chestnut-capped piha (Lipaugus weberi) (2001)
- Munchique wood-wren (Henicorhina negreti) (2003)
- Upper Magdalena tapaculo (Scytalopus rodriguezi) (2005)
- Antioquia brown-banded antpitta (Grallaria milleri gilesi) (2009)
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