Experience

BirdLife Malta

• Malta
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Conservation - BirdLife Malta

  • Jan 2020 - Present

• Conservation Manager

  • Jul 2012 - Dec 2019

• Project Manager - LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project

  • Jul 2012 - Sep 2016

  Project partners: BirdLife Malta, Ministry of Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change (MSDEC), the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves (SPEA)Value: 873,964.00 €, 50% LIFE co-financingThe LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project researched the habits of Malta's three Procellariform seabird species: the Yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan), the Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) and the Mediterranean subspecies of the European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) breeding in Malta, with the aim of identifying important sites for these seabirds at sea and guaranteeing their protection. As a result of this project, the Maltese government in June 2016 designated eight new marine Special Protection Areas (SPAs) covering no less than 27% of Malta’s Fisheries Management Zone which extends to a 25 nautical mile radius to the Maltese Islands. As a result, Malta is possibly the first EU country where 100% of its marine IBAs have been fully designated as marine SPAs. Show less

• Conservation & Policy Officer

  • Sep 2009 - Jul 2012

• Project Manager - LIFE Yelkouan Shearwater Project

  • May 2009 - Sep 2010

  Project partners: BirdLife Malta, Armed Forces of Malta, Malta Centre for Fisheries Sciences, Malta Maritime Authority, National Museum of Natural History, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Sociedade Portuguesa Para o Estudo das Aves (SPEA)Value: 919,733.00 €, 50% LIFE co-financingThe project focused on initiating research & conservation actions and raising awareness on the decline of the Yelkouan Shearwater, at its largest colony of the Rdum tal-Madonna SPA in the Maltese Islands. The project halted the decline in shearwaters, established the first Marine Important Bird Area for Malta, as well as prepared the first managament plan for a seabird colony SPA in Malta. The successful closure of this project laid the foundations of future LIFE projects on seabirds in Malta. Show less



AIS Environment

• Malta
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Environmental Coordinator

  • Oct 2006 - May 2009



University of Malta

• Malta
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Demonstrator/Research Assistant

  • Jun 2006 - Jan 2007