Darren Long
Wildlife Conservation Society
Bozeman,
MT
USA
Biographical Sketch: As program director with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Darren is responsible for all management, administration and grantmaking activities of the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund, which will make $4 million in grants available to organizations working to implement applied climate adaptation projects for wildlife over the next two years. Darren spent four years at WCS directing giving and strategy for the Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund, that awarded more than $7.5 million in support for nonprofit conservation organizations working to implement priorities of strategic habitat conservation plans in all 50 states and six U.S. territories. Both programs have been made possible by the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Before moving to Montana in 2006 to join the Wildlife Conservation Society team, Darren spent four years at The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia, where his work focused on green space preservation and the expansion and improvement of urban parks through the Foundation’s Environmental Initiative. Also in Georgia, Darren served as the Program Associate for Habitat at the Turner Foundation. There, his principal focus was the funding of public policy advocacy, litigation and local grassroots efforts to preserve terrestrial and marine biodiversity through landscape-scale habitat protection. And from 1996-2002, Darren spent many happy hours observing the behavior of apes and monkeys while coordinating research, conservation and education programs for the Living Links Center - Emory University's institute for the study of human and ape evolution. Darren has volunteered as a consulting editor for the children’s science magazine Odyssey. He has also made various public appearances as "Captain Planet," the world’s only environmental superhero, in support of the Captain Planet Foundation, which provides grants for youth-run environmental projects. He received a master's degree in Political Science at Montana State University, is a graduate of The George Washington University and studied history and environmental policy at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
Papers:
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