Featured Speaker:
Jajean Rose Burney
Presentation:
Niagara River Birds, Ramsar, and the Niagara River Globally Significant Important Bird Area.
Time 4 pm
Location
5777 Lewiston Road
Lewiston, New York
Jajean, a Western New York native, is the Deputy Executive Director at the Western .
He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental design and a master’s degree in urban planning, both from the University at Buffalo (UB). After graduating in 2007, he worked at the Urban Design Project, a research center at UB, on several local planning efforts, environmental coalition building, and non-profit development. As a graduate student, Jajean studied in the Sustainable Futures program in Costa Rica, and taught in the same program while working for the Urban Design Project. From 2010 to 2012 he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer stationed with Mexico’s federal environmental agency in Puebla, a large city in southern Mexico, along with his wife Ana. There, he helped protect a large wetland from rapid and unplanned urban development, a project that led to an international Ramsar Site designation for the wetland and a new state park. At the Land Conservancy, Jajean has helped save important wildlife habitats and create new nature preserves. He also led an effort to designate the Niagara River as a Ramsar Site.
He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental design and a master’s degree in urban planning, both from the University at Buffalo (UB). After graduating in 2007, he worked at the Urban Design Project, a research center at UB, on several local planning efforts, environmental coalition building, and non-profit development. As a graduate student, Jajean studied in the Sustainable Futures program in Costa Rica, and taught in the same program while working for the Urban Design Project. From 2010 to 2012 he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer stationed with Mexico’s federal environmental agency in Puebla, a large city in southern Mexico, along with his wife Ana. There, he helped protect a large wetland from rapid and unplanned urban development, a project that led to an international Ramsar Site designation for the wetland and a new state park. At the Land Conservancy, Jajean has helped save important wildlife habitats and create new nature preserves. He also led an effort to designate the Niagara River as a Ramsar Site.
The Niagara River from the Stella Niagara Preserve in Lewiston