Paul Thomson |
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Wildlife Conservation Network
Director of Conservation Programs |
Paul specializes in highly threatened and endangered species, incubating conservation startups, and building leadership capacity in the environmental field. Paul is the Director of Conservation Programs at the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN). He helped design, launch, and now oversees the Lion Recovery Fund. Prior to WCN, Paul was a director of Ewaso Lions in Kenya and helped build and run the project. In addition to his work with WCN, he runs Save Pangolins, a project he co-founded to address the illegal trade of the little-known pangolin, the world’s most illegally trafficked mammal. Paul is an alum of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders program and now serves on the board. Paul holds a BSc from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment and received his Master’s from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He was raised in the Bay Area and has come home to live in San Francisco.
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