Paul George William Salaman (born 27 January 1971) is an ornithologist and conservationist based the Rainforest Trust, overseeing biodiversity conservation across Latin America.
In 1971, Salaman was born in Australia, where he started birding at the age of six, before moving to the UK.
In 1979, Paul met David Attenborough and became enthused by conservation and natural history.
In 1992, Salaman established a nature reserve in southwest Colombia and commenced Project Ognorhynchus to locate and protect the critically endangered yellow-eared parrot with Fundacion ProAves, where he is an elected advisory board member.
from the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford studying threatened bird populations in southwest Colombia.