John Robinson

John G. Robinson

Biography

John G. Robinson is the senior vice president and director of the International Conservation program for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He oversees more than 300 field projects in 53 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Dr. Robinson is well known for his work in tropical conservation, and has undertaken fieldwork in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil. He continues to explore how human uses of tropical forests affect biodiversity and the long-term survival of those ecosystems. Dr. Robinson has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, including Neotropical Wildlife Use and Conservation (1991), co-edited with Kent Redford, and Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests (2000), co-edited with Elizabeth Bennett.

Dr. Robinson received his doctorate in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977. He then joined the Smithsonian Institution, and undertook fieldwork in association with the National Zoological Park. In 1980, he joined the faculty of the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida. In the same year, he established the university's Program for Studies in Tropical Conservation, a graduate program that provides training in conservation to students from tropical countries. He joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1990 .

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