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title: "Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary, Convention on Migratory Species passes away at 52"
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# Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary, Convention on Migratory Species passes away at 52

The Convention on Migratory Species (Bonn Convention; [UNEP-CMS](https://www.cms.int)) has announced that its [Executive Secretary, Dr. Bradnee Chambers](https://www.cms.int/en/news/bradnee-chambers-1966-2019) passed away on 23 January 2019 in his native Canada after a short illness.  Dr Chambers, an expert in international environmental governance who had been in the position [since 2013](https://www.unep-aewa.org/en/news/dr-bradnee-chambers-appointed-new-executive-secretary-cms), was only 52.

 Tilman Schneider, CMS Associate Programme Officer, Avian Species has written to *ACAP Latest News* saying that the passing of the Executive Secretary has come as a shock.  The CMS Secretariat has stated “We have lost a great colleague, and a strong leader, who had a clear vision; a kind and cheerful manager who always kept his door open to all staff; and a generous and warm-hearted colleague.  He will be missed by many colleagues here in Bonn and around the world.”

  ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/People/BradneeChambers_PortraitAydinBahramlouian.jpg)

 [Bradnee Chambers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradnee_Chambers), MA, LLM, PhD (19 July 1966 - 23 January 2019), photograph by Aydin Bahramlouian

 ACAP, one of seven “daughter” [Agreements of the CMS Family](https://www.cms.int/en/cms-instruments/agreements), joins with its colleagues in Bonn in extending its thoughts and condolences to Bradnee Chambers’ family (he is survived by a daughter) and also to our CMS friends.

 Those involved with the development of the Albatross & Petrel Agreement worked closely with the framework Bonn Convention, and with a previous CMS Executive Secretary, Arnulf Müller-Helmbrecht, around the time of the final negotiation meeting held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001.  The early history of ACAP has been set out in a publication written by a number of persons then involved that *inter alia* details the important role played by the Bonn Convention in ACAP's genesis.

 With thanks to Tilman Schneider, Associate Programme Officer, Avian Species, Convention on Migratory Species.

 **Reference:**

 Cooper, J., Baker, G.B., Double, M.C., Gales, R., Papworth, W., Tasker, M.L. & Waugh, S.M. 2006.  The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: rationale, history, progress and the way forward.  [*Marine Ornithology*34: 1-5](http://www.marineornithology.org/content/get.cgi?rn=676).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 25 January 2019*