Strengthening the management of protected areas and natural resources globally
Empowering Global Conservation Using Experts
Global Parks mobilizes highly skilled professionals to strengthen developing nations' natural resource management through experienced guidance and practical assistance.
Highly experienced professionals with, collectively, thousands of years of real experience in dealing with the full range of long and short term issues facing protected area managers around the world and sharing this practical know-how on site with their counterparts, goes far beyond the abilities of other organizations to date and at a fraction of the cost.
Rob Milne - past Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee on World Heritage
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What We Do
We mobilize professionals retired from government agencies, such as the National Park Service and Forest Service, to work collaboratively with partner nations through practical low cost assistance.
Global Parks Experts
The Global Parks program uses retired land management officials, each with over 30 years’ experience working in agencies such as the National Park Service and Forest Service, working as volunteers 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 former American government officials with long practical experience.
Volunteer Impact
There are thousands of highly skilled professionals retired from Government and they are the best way to build capacity in government agencies of partner nations.
Global Partnerships
Retired professionals have assisted conservation programs in The Bahamas, Mongolia, Dominica, Thailand, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Malaysia, Kenya, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Lucia, Colombia, Palau, Peru and Paraguay.