Craig Groves

Craig Groves is currently Conservation Approach Director at The Nature Conservancy where he specializes in land/ocean interface and interaction. Previously, he worked as Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Greater Yellowstone Program where he oversaw several wildlife research and conservation projects and was involved in conservation planning at the landscape level.He is a North American representative to the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management where he serves on an...See more

Craig Groves is currently Conservation Approach Director at The Nature Conservancy where he specializes in land/ocean interface and interaction. Previously, he worked as Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Greater Yellowstone Program where he oversaw several wildlife research and conservation projects and was involved in conservation planning at the landscape level.He is a North American representative to the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management where he serves on an international task force to revise the IUCN System of Management Categories for Protected Areas. Groves was one of the principal players in launching and implementing ecoregional conservation planning efforts. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book on conservation planning, Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning for Biodiversity. Groves has published over 40 papers and book chapters on the ecology of various nongame species, the management of at-risk species, and planning for biodiversity conservation. See less