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The Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau

Iván Darío Valencia Rodríguez

Assistant Advisor for the Americas

Colombia; joined the Bureau in 2003

Studied geography and graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá in December 2002, with a thesis on the habitat and geographical distribution of the lark Eremophila alpestris peregrine on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in Colombia. Through the Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología (ABO), one of the leading birdwatcher associations in Colombia, Iván Darío has been involved in environmental education activities including bird surveys, celebrating World Wetlands Day, writing articles, designing an educational programme for teachers working near urban wetlands, and currently he is coordinating the aquatic bird censuses in the region. Spanish is his mother tongue and besides being fluent in English, he also has a good knowledge of Norwegian and Portuguese and some French and German.

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Iván with Valerie Higgins, Ramsar party in Begnins, July 2003

September 2003: with Nassima Aghanim, Liazzat Rabbiosi, Estelle Gironnet

With the departing Secretary General, July 2003

For further information about the Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted 25 July 2003, updated 20 November 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.