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Who's who

Maria Bernadete Ribas Lange, Partners for Wetlands Project Director, started work with WWF-Brazil in July 1998 to oversee the development and implementation of WWF's conservation strategy for the Brazilian Pantanal. She has a MS in zoology with additional training in protected area management, costal zone management and environmental education. Before joining WWF-Brazil, Bernadete Lange has worked for SPVS, a major environmental NGO from southern Brazil, in a variety of capacities: fauna survey and management projects, Environmental Educator, coordinator of organization's major program (an ICDP in the Atlantic Forest and coastal region of Parana), and overall technical program director. All of this working experience makes her ideal for the position and entirely able to plan and implement the programme, linking conservation and development, including public policy and environmental education.

Ana Claudia Barbosa joined WWF-Brazil in June 1997 as a communications officer. She participates in all the work carried out by the communications team and is in charge of the communications pertaining the Pantanal Forever programme, an important arm of the Partners for Wetlands. She was a journalist and prior to joining WWF she has worked mostly on daily national newspapers as a reporter and editor. From 1994-1997 she was a correspondent for some Brazilian newspapers and magazines in Australia. She has a BA in Journalism.

Liang Haitang is now working as Yangtze Focal Project Leader, based in Changsha Field Office. She has been with WWF China Programme Office since Sept. 1998, dealing with wetland conservation and restoration in Central Yangtze Ecoregion. Prior to WWF, HaiTang was a geographical researcher at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science.