John ROBINSON

John G. Robinson directed the WCS’s conservation programs in the Americas, Africa and Asia from 1990 to 2020. He has studied subsistence and commercial hunting in tropical forests, and has a long interest in wildlife conservation, especially in Latin America. He has over 200 publications, including editing "Neotropical Wildlife Use and Conservation" (1991) with Kent Redford, “Hunting for sustainability in tropical forests" (2000), with Elizabeth Bennett, and “Protected Areas. Are they safeguarding biodiversity?” (2016), with Lucas Joppa and Jonathan Baillie. He has a long history with IUCN, serving as a member of various commissions since 1985, representing IUCN on the TRAFFIC Board (1998-2009), chairing the Sustainable Use Advisory Group (2003-2010), and serving as a Vice President of the IUCN Council, and Councilor for North America from 2012 to 2021. In 2003, Dr. Robinson was inducted into the Royal Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, in recognition of lifetime achievement and service to conservation. In 2016, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Zoological Society of London, England. He is presently helping the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) with the implementation of the Gustavo Fonseca Conservation Leadership Program.