Twenty-nine people, and the reason you cannot see their faces.

Everyone on payroll or long-term contract, with what they actually do. Volunteers, vets on call and partner staff are not listed here.

We publish names and roles and nothing else. No photographs, no regions of residence, no direct email addresses or telephone numbers. Several colleagues have had threats made against them and their families, and the details a normal team page carries are exactly the details that make that easier. Everything reaches us through the office.

Direction

Marta BielakDirectorRuns the organisation and signs off on every case we open.

Andrei PavelescuHead of field operationsDecides what the field teams do each season.

Yannick DeprezHead of finance and compliance

Ilse WoutersChair, board of trusteesUnpaid. Meets four times a year.

Field operations

Sofia KaragianniRegional lead, Balkans

Tomas RebeloRegional lead, Iberia

Kasper LindqvistRegional lead, Northern Europe

Bogdan IliePatrol coordinator, Danube Delta

Nuria CampsPatrol coordinator, Andalusia

Petar StoyanovPatrol coordinator, Rhodope mountains

Rik HoofsField coordinator, CarpathiansRuns the patrol rota and the night shifts. Rarely in the office.

Lena VermeulenRescue and transport coordinatorArranges the vet, the crate and the border paperwork.

Dragan NovakField technician, cameras and telemetry

Aurelie MercierField technician, alpine sites

Milan HorakNight patrol lead, Carpathians

Eleni FotiadiWetland patrol lead

Science and casework

Hanneke BuysHead of caseworkCarries a file from the first carcass to the verdict.

Iulia ConstantinVeterinary lead

Paul SteenbergenToxicology and forensicsDecides what a sample can and cannot prove.

Marek ZielinskiWildlife crime analyst

Claudia FerrerLegal counsel, EU environmental law

Jonas AhlgrenData and mapping

Vasco PinheiroPopulation monitoring

Amina CherifEvidence and case administration

Support

Fenna de RuiterOffice managerReads the contact form. Everything starts here.

Stijn BaetenDonor relations

Oskar WisniewskiGrants and reporting

Hilde JanssenCommunications

Tanya IvanovaTranslation and liaison

Everything goes through one door.

We do not publish individual addresses or inboxes. Send it to the office and it reaches the person who handles it, usually the same week.

Contact the office