CORTES ELECTION SUCCESS

Dr John Cortes

Council of the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum (UKOTCF)

Dr John Cortes, General Secretary of the Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society has been re-elected to the Council of the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum (UKOTCF), at a meeting held on Friday morning at the Linnean Society in Piccadilly, London.

Dr Cortes was first elected to the Council in 2009 and now begins his second three-year term on the governing Council of this international conservation organisation.

The UKOTCF is a body that brings together major UK nature protection and ecological organisations with those in the UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.  The organisation, which is also extending links to the dependencies of other European countries, notably France, aims to co-ordinate ideas and experiences in promoting conservation in these very different but in many ways similar small territories.

GONHS is itself a full, active member of the Forum.