Gary Tabor

Trained as a wildlife veterinarian and ecologist (B.Sc. Cornell, V.M.D. UPenn, M.E.S. Yale), Gary Tabor is a conservation catalyst. His career spans 28 years of conservation work throughout the world. Gary’s notable conservation achievements include helping to establish Kibale National Park in Uganda; establishing the World Bank’s Mountain Gorilla Conservation Trust; championing the creation of the Yellowstone-to-Yukon Conservation Initiative; founding the Consortium for Conservation Medicine with EcoHealth Allinace, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine; instigating the creation of the Australia Environmental Grantmakers Association; establishing Wilburforce Foundation’s conservation science program and Y2Y field office; catalyzing the Western Governors Association wildlife corridor initiative; and co-founding Patagonia Company’s Freedom-to-Roam campaign to advance wildlife corridor conservation. Dr. Tabor has also served as the Environment Program Director for the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation, the Associate Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, and Y2Y Program Director for the Wilburforce Foundation. For the past two decades, Gary has been very active in developing the conservation capacity in the Greater Yellowstone and Crown of the Continent ecosystems. In 2007, Gary established the Center for Large Landscape Conservation to provide strategic planning services that advance ecological connectivity conservation and climate adaptation efforts for wildlife.