Bill Weber

Dr. Bill Weber has worked for over thirty years in the field of international conservation. He lived in Africa for nine years, where he and his wife, Dr. Amy Vedder, helped to establish the famous Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda and several other park and forest protection initiatives across the Congo Basin. Later, as the director of North America Programs for the Wildlife Conservation Society, he oversaw dozens of projects from Alaska to the Adirondacks, addressing issues from lynx and wolf recovery to fire ecology, ecotourism, and community-based conservation. He also co-edited African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation, co-authored In the Kingdom of Gorillas, and served as co-chair of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.