Isadora is Colombian by origin and joined the Manomet team in May 2018 as Shorebird Conservation Specialist in the WHSRN Executive Office. In 2022 started her rol as WHSRN Executive Office Assistant Director and AMBI Americas Coordinator. She is in charge of promoting the incorporation of shorebirds within national conservation agendas, assessing the uses of resources at WHSRN sites, and building the capacity of partners in ecosystem service assessments. Isadora has been working on the conservation of birds in Colombia and throughout the Western Hemisphere for over 15 years.
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Isadora gained her conservation experience through working on research in the field and through engaging with communities in her native Colombia as part of Asociación Calidris, moving later to South-east Asia to work in conservation of endangered and traded species. Between 2011 and joining Manomet in 2018, Isadora worked for the BirdLife International Americas Secretariat as the Americas Flyways Coordinator, including representing BirdLife on the WHSRN Hemispheric Council. At BirdLife she supported the development of conservation programs for grassland birds and migratory birds including globally threatened migratory birds, she also developed and helped build BirdLife Partners’ capacities for conducting ecosystem service assessments at the site level.
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Isadora is a biologist with a major in ornithology from Universidad del Valle in Colombia, completed a Diploma in Endangered Species Management at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and University of Kent (UK) and holds a Masters in Conservation Leadership from the University of Cambridge (UK).