Ana Paula Tavares

Ana Paula Tavares brings vision and expertise to Save the Chimps, with more than thirty years of nonprofit and conservation experience. Prior to joining Save the Chimps, she served as Executive Director of Audubon New York and Connecticut, where she oversaw six nature centers, integrated two-state teams, and strategic priorities, and revitalized the conservation programs. Prior to her tenure at Audubon, she spent 18 years at the Rainforest Alliance, championing its market-driven conservation efforts and developing strategic partnerships and projects with local forest communities and farmers, governments, corporations, and funders.