Gary Tabor

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Gary Martin Tabor is an American conservationist with more than 40 years' experience [1] working on behalf of large-scale conservation internationally as well as 12 years as a leader within the U.S. environmental philanthropic community. Tabor is known for his role as a catalyst in forwarding progress through large landscape conservation, pioneering the fields of Conservation Medicine and EcoHealth, and advising agencies and organizations about contemporary environmental issues.

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He is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation, an NGO that focuses on conserving nature at large scale through ecological corridors and protected area ecological networks. Tabor is also a Professor of "Conservation" Practice at Cornell University in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. He serves as Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas' Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group, which connects 1,300 scientists from 135 countries. Tabor has worked on behalf of large landscape conservation internationally on every continent except Antarctica.  

Tabor’s conservation achievements include the establishment of Kibale National Park in Uganda; the establishment of the World Bank’s Mgahinga-Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Mountain Gorilla Conservation Trust in Uganda; co-founding the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative; pioneering the field of Conservation Medicine — the precursor to One Health; co-founding Patagonia Company’s Freedom to Roam wildlife corridor campaign and co-founding the Network for Landscape Conservation. Tabor is a recipient of the Australian American Fulbright Scholar Award in Climate Change and the Henry Luce Scholar Award. He is a co-founder of the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network.

Tabor is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is a member of the Conservation Committee of the National Aquarium in Baltimore and serves on the US board of Bush Heritage Australia, a land trust that manages roughly 2% of all lands in Australia.

Tabor developed the three-circle diagram that defines the fields of Conservation Medicine and later One Health Tabor Conservation Medicine Diagram.png
Tabor developed the three-circle diagram that defines the fields of Conservation Medicine and later One Health

Education

Trained as a wildlife veterinarian and ecologist, Tabor graduated in 1981 with a B.Sc. in Ecology from Cornell University. He then went on to receive his V.M.D. in Wildlife Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. Tabor also received an M.E.S. in Conservation Biology from Yale University in 1992.

Career

Tabor is the founder and CEO of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation, which was established in 2007. [3] He is the former Director of the North America Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Awards, appointments and philanthropic activities

· 2024: Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award – International Association of Landscape Ecology

·Chair, Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

·2013-2014 Professional Fulbright Scholar on Climate Change and Clean Energy

·Senior Conservation Fellow, Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, University of Montana

·Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

·Member of the Conservation Committee of the National Aquarium in Baltimore

·Member on the US board of Bush Heritage Australia

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

·Previously served as the Environment Program Officer for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Associate Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, and the program director for the Wilburforce Foundation. [5]

Institutional Leadership

Publications

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References

  1. ↑ Saulnier, Beth (January 17, 2025). "Alum Helps Protect Wildlife—By Connecting Their Habitats". Cornellians | Cornell University. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ Patz, Jonathan A.; Daszak, Peter; Tabor, Gary M.; Aguirre, A. Alonso; Pearl, Mary; Epstein, Jon; Wolfe, Nathan D.; Kilpatrick, A. Marm; Foufopoulos, Johannes; Molyneux, David; Bradley, David J. (July 2004). "Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence". Environmental Health Perspectives. 112 (10): 1092–1098. doi: 10.1289/ehp.6877 . ISSN   0091-6765. PMC   1247383 . PMID   15238283.
  3. ↑ "Conserving Connections Between Natural Areas | Center for Large Landscape Conservation". largelandscapes.org. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)". Archived from the original on October 5, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Gary Tabor: Consortium for Conservation Medicine". Archived from the original on June 6, 2009. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam / The Book / Writers". Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
  7. ↑ "E3B - Faculty Biographies - Jon Epstein". Archived from the original on December 27, 2009. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Scientific Commons: Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence (2004), 2004 [Patz, Jonathan A., Daszak, Peter, Tabor, Gary M., Aguirre, Alonso A., Pearl, Mary, Epstein, Jon]". Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 20, 2008. Retrieved December 16, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ↑ "Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice". Archived from the original on May 1, 2008. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
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