Gary Tabor

Dr. Gary Tabor is an American environmentalist.

Current activities

Tabor is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation[1] which was established in 2007. Focused on the American West, the Center creates strategies to solve natures large scale challenges such as climate change, habitat fragmentation and loss of vital goods and services provided by healthy ecosystems.

Professional philanthropic activities

Tabor has served as the Environment Program Officer for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Associate Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, co-founder of Animal Grantmakers and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, and Yellowstone to Yukon Program Director for the Wilburforce Foundation.[2]

Conservation achievements

Tabor’s conservation achievements include establishing Makerere University's Biological Field Station in Kibale Forest, Uganda, the facilitation of the establishment of Kibale National Park in Uganda; co-founding the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation initiative; co-founding the New England Grassroots Environment Fund; co-founding the Consortium for Conservation Medicine with Wildlife Trust, attending Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University; catalyzing the Western Governors Association wildlife corridor initiative; and co-founding Patagonia's (clothing) Freedom to Roam campaign[3] to advance landscape connectivity conservation. He recently conducted the first ever Congo Basin-wide evaluation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Great Ape Conservation Fund.

Tabor currently serves on the Advisory Team of the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative. He is also a Senior Fellow, University of Montana Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Co-Director, Roundtable for the Crown of the Continent. Dr. Tabor is helping to create a Network of Large Landscape Practitioners, in conjunction with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, an operating foundation. This effort seeks to build capacity, leverage resources, and enhance the policy influence of North America’s large landscape conservation community. He also assisted the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative in the design and publication of its 2010 report “Moving Toward Climate Change Adaptation: The promise of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative for addressing the region’s vulnerability to Climate Disruption.”

Tabor is a former elected member to the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology. [4] He is a member of the Phi Zeta, the Veterinarian Honor Society, and was awarded a Henry Luce Scholar grant.

Field conservation activities

1981-1982: Research Assistant, Cornell University, Bee-Eater Research Project, Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Research technician for Dr. Stephen T. Emlen and Dr. Peter Wrege. Studied the cooperative breeding behavior of the White-fronted Bee-Eater (Merops bullockoides)funded by National Science Foundation and Explorer’s Club.

1982-1983: Research Assistant, Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology, Voltzberg-Raleigh Falls Reserve, Surinam. Studied the behavior of the rare neotropical bird, the Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola rupicola) funded by National Geographic Research.

1986: Research Assistant, Bowhead Whale Census Project, North Slope Borough, Barrow Alaska. Conducted population estimates of the Bowhead whale via aerial, acoustical and ice-based visual census techniques.

1987-1989: Co-Director, Makerere University Biological Field Station, Kibale Forest, Uganda. (One of the premier tropical forest ecological research stations in Africa.) Managed field station operations, designed and implemented forest protected areas, coordinated research activities, supervised community conservation program. Helped transform the Kibale Forest Project, an individual research effort, into a more broad-based institutional design. Worked with USAID and Ugandan Government in establishing Kibale National Park.

1989-1992: Senior Program Officer African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) covering Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Rwanda, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Supervised tropical forest conservation and biodiversity projects; community conservation projects; nature tourism development; wildlife policy and planning and endangered species conservation. Established AWF operations in Uganda and Tanzania.

Government advisory experience

2010 to Present: President Obama's America’s Great Outdoors Initiative: connecting local western conservation groups by acting as a local liaison for federal programs and projects.

2010 to Present: U.S. Department of Interior: Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, guiding the development of a regional climate adaptation strategy.

2008 to Present: State of Montana: Crucial Areas and Connectivity Assessment, coordinator of Connectivity Working Group and Climate Adaptation Working Group.

2008-2009: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Program review of the Great Ape Conservation Fund and Central Africa Forest Partnership.

2007-2008: Western Governors Association: Wildlife Corridors Initiative, Climate Change and Science committees.

1998: Ecosystem Conservation Advisor for Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy in Thailand: Facilitated $12.0 million ecosystem conservation design for the Western Forest Complex, one of the largest remaining tracts of intact forest in Southeast Asia.

1989-1992: U.S. AID Biodiversity Design specialist: Action Program for the Environment in Uganda, Planning and Assessment for Wildlife Management in Tanzania, strategic plan for Natural Resources Management Strategy in Africa.

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ CLLC website 2009 (see link below),
  2. ↑ http://www.conservationmedicine.org/gary_tabor.htm
  3. ↑ http://freedomtoroam.org/about/people/
  4. ↑ http://www.conbio.org/aboutus/BOG/
  5. ↑ http://www.visionsofthewild.com/subsites/photoprowriter.html
  6. ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/faculty/epstein.html
  7. ↑ http://en.scientificcommons.org/39589236
  8. ↑ http://www.ecohealth.net/pdf/journal_pdf/Vol_1/Vol1_Iss3/ECH_Commentaries_1_3.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104995512

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