Gary Tabor Email and Phone Number

Faculty Fellow - Cornell Atkinson Center for SustainabilityFaculty Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

The Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) supports the science, policy, and practice of ecological connectivity conservation as the framework for large-scale conservation. CLLC works across North America and the globe to combat the impacts of habitat fragmentation and to enhance nature's resilience to climate change. CLLC works to protect, maintain and, restore wildlife corridors, migration and dispersal areas, landscape linkage zones and connected protected area networks. The Center also supports an international program in road ecology that works to avoid and/or mitigate the impacts of linear infrastructure (roads, rails, pipelines, canals, transmission lines, etc) on wildlife habitat and biodiversity. To work at a large scale, CLLC achieves its goals through the many networks it hosts and supports in reaching more than 2000 landscape and seascape efforts around the world. Learn more at www.largelandscapes.org

Congo Basin-wide evaluation of the USFWS Great Ape Conservation Fund and its partnership with USAID's CARPE effort in Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, DRC and Rwanda. Site visits to Cross River Gorilla, Eastern Lowland Gorilla, Western Lowland Gorilla, and Mountain Gorilla field conservation projects; as well as visits to Bonobo and Chimpanzee conservation efforts(2008 and 2009). In addition the USFWS has engaged me to evaluate their Cross River Gorilla Landscape conservation efforts in Nigeria and Cameroon (2015 and 2016)

Co-author Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Strategic Framework

Coinciding with the International Gorilla Conservation Programme's 25 Anniversary, co-lead (with Elizabeth O'Neill) a midterm field review of IGCP Strategic Plan for conserving Mountain Gorillas in the Virunga Mountains and Impenetrable Forest Landscapes.

Co-Founder of Patagonia Company initiative to conserve wildlife corridors. Freedom to Roam played a critical role in the design of the Western Governors' Association west-wide Wildlife Corridor Initiative (2007-2013) that laid the groundwork for state and federal wildlife corridor policy in the USA.

Evaluation of landscape conservation, endangered species and marine ecosystem grants in the Rocky Mountain west and coastal British Columbia.

Led the redesign of the North America Program during a time of fiscal constraint. Built administrative and funding capacity. Retooled projects into programs that focused on landscape scale conservation, ecological connectivity, science to policy engagement and initiated the climate adaptation program.

Developed the overall strategic framework for Wilburforce investment within the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape. Established the first field program office of a North American focused environmental philanthropy. Notable accomplishments - established one of the first conservation science funding programs, helped in design of one the largest land trust collaboratives (27 member Heart of the Rockies program), and catalyst for one of the largest private land deals in the US. Other outcomes -- helped to establish the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Association and the Conservation Science Working Group of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity.

Co-Founder of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine with Tufts Veterinary School, Harvard Medical School and EcoHealth Alliance (formerly known as Wildlife Trust).

Program evaluation and review of grants for university level environmental initiatives and research centers

Two-year term-limited position helping to design large landscape and seascape initiatives. Helped design Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the New England Environmental Grassroots Fund, the Gulf of Maine Marine initiative, and a national ecosystem management effort with the US Forest Service. Today the Kendall Foundation, once the nation's leader in climate change funding and large landscape work, now has other social and geographic priorities.

Directed programming for half of Dodge Foundation's grantmaking in environmental, biodiversity, and animal issues. Today the Dodge Foundation, once one of the largest environmental funders, now has other social and geographic priorities.

Designer of first World Bank GEF conservation fund in Africa - the Bwindi Mgahinga Mountain Gorilla Conservation Trust.

Seconded from African Wildlife Foundation as needed. Designed Action Programme for the Environment (APE) Uganda; Planning and Assessment for Wildlife Management (PAWM) Tanzania; Community Conservation Benefits for Resources Action (COBRA) Kenya. Helped lead in Government of Uganda negotiations in creating Kibale National Park.

Supervisor of all field program efforts in East and Central Africa; established AWF programs in Tanzania and Uganda; started AWF community-based conservation program funded by Pew Foundation; designed country wide biodiversity conservation efforts.

First Co-Director Makerere University Biological Field Station in Kibale Forest; Head of Kibale Forest Project. Started in 1981 and 1982 and returned in 1987.