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Branch Representatives

	Africa Rowan Martin, PhD Rowan first became involved with WPT while studying the breeding behaviour of Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrots (Amazona barbadensis) on the island of Bonaire. He has worked on a number of field projects in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean and has travelled extensively throughout sub-saharan Africa. Read more »
	Australia Carolyn Pradun Carolyn Pradun has kept birds all her life, starting with the family’s pet budgie, and moving on to breeding and showing budgies while in high school. She has shared the last 16 years with a Rainbow Lorikeet. Read more »
	Benelux Ruud Vonk For over 30 years Ruud Vonk has been a breeder of Amazon parrots in Benelux. In 1990, his passion for parrots led him to become a member and Chairman of the WPT-Benelux. He began actively promoting the WPT in Holland and Belgium. Read more »
	Belgium Ronald Coens Since his youth, Ronald has been fascinated by birds in general, and parrots in particular. Upon first discovering the existence of the World Parrot Trust, and learning he and the organisation shared similar goals, he knew he had to become a member. Read more »
	Brazil Andre Saidenberg, DVM, PhD Andre is a Brazilian veterinarian with a special interest in medicine for birds and other wild animals. He completed his Masters degree in Veterinary Epidemiology in Microbiology in captive and free-living psittacines in 2008, his PhD working with confiscated birds undergoing the release process back into the wild in 2013 and currently postdoctoral surveys of the health of free-ranging Lear's Macaws. Read more »
	Canada Michelle Kooistra Michelle Kooistra has been a bird lover for most of her life, so falling in step with the work of the World Parrot Trust was a natural fit. Michelle's journey through the bird world has included sharing her home with numerous cockatiels, budgies, and the occasional dove. Read more »
	India Avin Deen Avin has been a nature and animal lover since childhood. The event that triggered his intense passion in birds and parrots in particular was his sister receiving four budgerigars as a birthday gift in 1993 from a friend. Read more »
	Italy Cristiana Senni Cristiana Senni was born and grew up in Rome, Italy where she graduated from Art school. She then spent 8 years in New York, after which she moved back to reside in Italy. Cristiana always loved animals, and started keeping parrots about 15 years ago. She now shares her life with four male Amazons, and a female Grey parrot. Read more »
	Sweden Maria Borgh Maria started her involvement with WPT Sweden in 2014, by being involved in the Swedish translation of PsittaScene and as an admin of the WPT Sweden Facebook page. Read more »
	Central America Rosa Elena Zegarra Rosa Elena Zegarra graduated as a Forest Engineer from the National Agrarian University in Perú, and worked in various research and evaluation projects on wildlife. She discovered her love for parrots working for the Macaw Project in the Tambopata Research Center, in Madre de Dios Peru, back in the 1990s. Read more »