About Tim Hirsch
Tim Hirsch is Senior Programme Officer for Engagement at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility , based in Copenhagen, Denmark, a post he took up in May 2011 after five years as a freelance journalist and consultant based in Brazil.
A former Environment Correspondent for BBC News, he is an acknowledged expert in the communication of global environmental and scientific issues to a non-specialist audience. His consultancy work has included writing services for three of the documents that formed the backdrop to the historic UN biodiversity agreement in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010: the board statement of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO3), and the synthesis report of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study.
A former Environment Correspondent for BBC News, he is an acknowledged expert in the communication of global environmental and scientific issues to a non-specialist audience. His consultancy work has included writing services for three of the documents that formed the backdrop to the historic UN biodiversity agreement in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010: the board statement of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO3), and the synthesis report of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study.
Bird species list from Atlantic Forest, Brazil
