Cheri Sugal
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Cheri Sugal (born January 27, 1971) is a U.S. environmental economist and has written several articles on conservation, for both popular and scientific audiences.
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[edit] Biography
Sugal received her BA in Public Policy and Human Biology from Stanford University in 1993 and her MA in Agricultural Economics from Stanford University’s Food Research Institute in 1994.
She had worked in more than 20 countries mainly in tropical locations - including Guyana, Suriname, Cambodia, Gabon, Fiji, Costa Rica and Mexico - helping to establish new protected areas. Sugal’s work has been focused on providing the financial resources needed to outbid logging and other development interests for the rights to intact rainforests. Her work has helped create more than 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km²) of newly protected rainforests, benefiting indigenous peoples, governments and local landowners.[1]
In 2004, Sugal was named Executive Director of Rainforest2Reef, a Tahoe based organization [2] that is protecting 350,000 acres (1,400 km²) of the Selva Maya Rainforest in the southern portion of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula – by providing indigenous landowners an economic alternative to logging [3]. The work of this organization is unprecedented – and has led to the protection of one of the last viable jaguar populations in Central America and 60,000 other species, the improvement of livelihoods of more than 300 indigenous families, and the prevention of an estimated 250,000 tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere annually.
Sugal is also currently an advisor to the Natural World Museum, the first museum in the world dedicated to educating the public about conservation. Prior to coming to Rainforest2Reef, Sugal was the Executive Director of World Parks and Senior Director of the Global Conservation Fund at Conservation International (CI). While at CI, she helped create the one-hundred-million dollar Global Conservation Fund with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
[edit] Publications
- with Conrad Aveling, J. Michael Fay, Rebecca Ham, Olivier Langrand, Lee White, John Hart, John Pilgrim and Russell Mittermeier. 2002. The Congo Forests of Central Africa in Mittermeier, Russell A. et al. Wilderness: Earth’s Last Wild Places. (Cemex).
- with Richard E. Rice, Shelley M. Ratay, and Gustavo A. Fonseca. 2001. Sustainable Forest Management: A Review of Conventional Wisdom. Advances in Applied Biodiversity Science, No. 3, p. 1-28. (Washington, DC: CABS/Conservation International).
- with Amy Rosenfeld-Sweeting, and Glenn T. Prickett. Promoting a Positive Net Benefit to Biodiversity from E&P Projects in Sensitive Ecosystems. 2000. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
- with Russell A. Mittermeier. Transnational Logging Investments in the Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Recent Trends Provide Opportunities for Conservation. Summer 1999. CI Policy Brief. Number 2. (Washington D.C.: Conservation International).
- with Richard Rice, Peter C. Frumhoff, Elizabeth Losos, and Raymond Gullison. Options for Conserving Biodiversity in the Context of Logging Tropical Forests in Bowles, Ian and Glenn Prickett. 1998. Footprints in the Jungle (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- with Ian A Bowles, Amy B. Rosenfeld, and Russell A. Mittermeier. Natural Resource Extraction in the Latin American Tropics: A Recent Wave of Investment Poses New Challenges for Biodiversity Conservation. Spring 1997. CI Policy Brief. Number 1. (Washington, D.C.: Conservation International).
- Elephants in Southern Africa Must Now Pay Their Way, World Watch Magazine, September/October 1997.
- The Price of Habitat, World Watch Magazine, May/June 1997.
- Most Forests Have No Protection, Most Forests Have No Protection, World Watch Magazine, January/February 1997.
- Labeling Wood: How Timber Certification May Reduce Deforestation, World Watch Magazine, September/October 1996.
- Roundwood Production Rises Again in Vital Signs 1997. (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute).
- "Forest Loss Continues" in Vital Signs 1997. (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute).
