Evgeny supervises the project in Russia and secures the relevant permissions.
Evgeny is currently Director of Birds Russia and Head of the Arctic Biodiversity Conservation Centre of the All-Russian Institute for Nature Conservation. As well as a wide range of scientific interests relevant to Arctic bird conservation and ornithology with a focus on Anatidae and shorebirds, he has worked on spoon-billed sandpipers for the last 13 years and is chair of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Task Force . He has spent 25 field seasons in the Russian Arctic and also conducted surveys for spoon-billed sandpiper in India and South East-Asia.
