MEET OUR MENTOR

DR. ANN HAYNES-SUTTON

Ann is a conservation ecologist, with more than 30 years of
experience working in the Caribbean, mainly Jamaica, in the
government and non-governmental sectors. Her special
interests include wildlife conservation; participatory
management planning for protected areas; environmental
education and interpretation; project design, proposal writing
and management; and capacity building for NGOs. Her role as
a director of BirdsCaribbean and the co-chair of their working
groups for Seabirds and Monitoring, has provided
opportunities to work with NGOs across the region. She is the
lead author of “A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica”
published by Christopher Helm in 2009. Ann has been
working on management and monitoring of protected areas
in general and MPAs since 1979, as a staff member of the
Natural Resources Conservation Department, as a consultant
and as Director of Conservation for The Nature Conservancy
in Jamaica. Ann completed her Ph.D. on seabird conservation
and management, has written management plans for the
Portland Bight Protected Area, and worked with the Caribbean Coastal Area Management
Foundation (C-CAM) on sustainable wetlands, including monitoring and the development of
sustainable livelihoods through tourism.
Ann is one of the organisational strengthening mentors for (C-CAM) to which she continues to lend
her expertise in problem solving, providing technical support for protected area management and
promoting participatory approaches.

“I believe that CSOs offer the best and most effective means to deliver conservation on the ground,
and to work properly they need to be strong institutionally.”