Global Parks: Empowering Global Conservation Through U.S. Conservation Professionals

Strengthening the management of protected areas and natural resources globally

Incredible Depth of Practical Skills and Experience

Global Parks provides veteran professionals who work with developing nations to strengthen the management of protected areas and natural resources. They work for no salary.

Global Parks works towards the long term outcome where partner nations are self-sufficient in the management of protected areas and natural resources. This means that a countries’ relevant government agencies are adequately funded, have the needed capacity, and that modernized legal / policy frameworks are in place.

What We Do

We mobilize veteran professionals from government agencies, such as the National Park Service and Forest Service, as well as the private sector to work with partner nations through practical low cost assistance.

Global Parks Experts

The Global Parks program uses retired land management officials and other experts, each with over 30 years’ experience working, working for no salary to provide practical assistance to governments around the world. Their skills and experience cannot be duplicated by any other organization.

Global Impact

The work of Global Parks has resulted in tangible improvements in the stewardship of natural resources in 14 countries. Global Parks is a proven model that is cost efficient and can scale to meet important natural and cultural resource management needs that exist throughout developing countries.

Global Parks works towards the long term outcome of the self-sufficiency of land management programs in developing nations, which is also a foundation for each country’s economic growth.

Working Towards an End Result

Conservation Impacts

Building capacity in developing nations utilizing highly skilled experts with long practical experience.

Impact of Veteran Conservation Professionals

There are thousands of highly skilled professionals retired from government agencies and private sector - they are the best way to build capacity needed in government agencies of partner nations.

Countries Engaged

Retired professionals have assisted The Bahamas, Mongolia, Dominica, Thailand, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Malaysia, Kenya, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Kitts Nevis, St. Lucia, Colombia, Palau, Peru and Paraguay.