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Paul Paquet - Director & Scientific Advisor
Paul C. Paquet is an American and Canadian biologist who is best known for his ecological and behavioral research on large carnivores, especially regarding wolves and bears. He has graduate degrees in philosophy, wildlife behavior and conservation, biology, and a Ph.D. in zoology from University of Alberta. His research focuses on the interface between ecological theory and conservation. He is an internationally recognized authority on mammalian carnivores; including their ecology, behaviour, and management. He has spent more than 40 years covering subjects ranging from the world wide decline of large carnivores to the philosophical relationship of animal welfare and conservation, publishing more than 200 scholarly articles and several books addressing issues of ecology, conservation and environmental ethics. Paquet is an educator and member of numerous government, industry, and advisory committees of organizations such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Canadian Wildlife Service, WWF International, and the European Union.[1][2]
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Misty MacDuffee -Director
Misty holds a BSc in biology and has been working on salmon conservation and management issues for the past 15 years with both government and NGOs. Misty was a founding member of the Land Conservancy of BC and a current director of the Gulf Islands Alliance and Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She has played a strong role in representing the conservation interests of feather, fur and fin on various management and recovery committees for the past 15 years.
Sadie Parr - Executive Director
Sadie holds a specialized honours degree in Biomedical Science, BSc., and has pursued further studies in conservation biology and at the post-graduate level in molecular genetics. Sadie is currently involved in a wolf feeding ecology study in BC's Chilcotin region, and previously tracked wolves for Yoho National Park during the winter months. She also worked for several years with captive ambassador wolves at an education centre. For over 10 years she has been engaging with government and NGO's about the need for wolf and large carnivore conservation across the country.
Chris Genovali - Director
With a mission of “investigate, inform, and inspire,” Chris Genovali leads Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s creative and effective campaigns to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest and Salish Sea. As Executive Director of Raincoast, Chris has made it a priority to partner with coastal communities to monitor wildlife, keep ecosystems intact and healthy, and build local conservation science capacity. Chris received a Conservation Leadership Award in 2015 from the Wilburforce Foundation. Before joining Raincoast in 1998, Chris led campaigns at the Wilderness Committee to conserve temperate rainforests and wildlife on southern Vancouver Island and coastal BC. Chris is a prolific writer, with articles, op-eds and features on Canadian wildlife and conservation issues widely published in Canada and internationally, including the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and Guardian UK. He was a contributor to Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground published in 2015, and Wild Foresting: Practicing Nature's Wisdom published in 2008, He has been a regular guest blogger for the Huffington Post since 2010. Chris has also appeared as a spokesperson on various radio and television outlets such as CBC's 'As It Happens', CBC 'Newsworld', US National Public Radio, Global TV, and BBC radio.
Board of Directors
Hannah Barron - Director
Hannah holds a BSc. in wildlife biology and is an MSc. candidate at Trent University studying caribou habitat selection patterns. Her research experience has taken her across the country, from Yukon all the way to Newfoundland. As manager for the Eastern Wolf Survey, she spent several months non-invasively tracking at-risk eastern wolves through Ontario's provincial parks to refine the known distribution of this elusive species. Her passion for environmental education and engaging the public in wildlife decision-making processes led her to her current roles: director of wildlife conservation campaigns at Toronto-based eNGO Earthroots and board director as well as Treasurer for Wolf Awareness. Hannah recognizes that wildlife management is ultimately the management of our tolerance for wild animals and she strives to combine ethics and science to strengthen conservation.
Melissa Matlow - Director
Melissa has a BSc in Ecology, a Masters in Environmental Studies and more than 15 years experience leading animal welfare and environmental campaigns. As the former Coordinator of Earthroots Wolves Ontario! Project she helped achieve province-wide restrictions on killing wolves in Ontario and permanent protection for the threatened Eastern wolves in townships bordering Algonquin Park. Since 2005 she has worked with World Animal Protection to protect the welfare of animals - wild and domestic - in Canada and around the world.
