Gary Tabor
Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Bozeman,
MT
USA
Biographical Sketch: Gary M. Tabor, conservation biologist and wildlife veterinarian, (B.Sc. Cornell, V.M.D. U Penn, M.E.S. Yale) is Executive Director of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation based in Bozeman, Montana and has an appointment at the University of Montana (the one in Missoula). Tabor has worked on behalf of large scale conservation internationally for over 30 years with 12 years as a leader within the U.S. environmental philanthropic community. Tabor has served as Program Officer of the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation, Associate Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, and Yellowstone to Yukon Program Director for the Wilburforce Foundation. His work in philanthropy also includes the design of international conservation trusts for USAID, and the World Bank. Tabor’s conservation achievements include the establishment of Kibale National Park in Uganda; establishment of the World Bank’s GEF Mountain Gorilla Conservation Trust; co-founding the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative; pioneering the field of Conservation Medicine and Ecohealth and starting the Consortium of Conservation Medicine with Tufts Veterinary School, Harvard Medical School and Ecohealth Alliance; co-designing the Western Governors’ Association Wildlife Corridors Initiative; co-founding Patagonia Company’s Freedom to Roam wildlife corridor campaign and co-founding the Roundtable of the Crown of the Continent and the Practitioners’ Network for Large Landscape Conservation. Tabor serves on the boards of the Society for Conservation Biology (eight years) and the Heart of the Rockies Land Trust collaborative. In 2007, Tabor received a leadership grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to establish the Center for Large Landscape Conservation. Tabor is a Henry Luce Scholar and a 2013 recipient of one of two Australian American Fulbright Scholar awards in Climate Change and Clean Energy.
Papers:
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Introducing the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Council -- an international stakeholder working group in support of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Network