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Vance G. Martin | |
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 Martin in Katmai National Park (August, 2018) | |
| Born | July 20, 1949 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Past President of The WILD Foundation 1983-2022. President Emeritus, Wilderness Foundation Global 2020-present |
| Years active | 1983-present |
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Vance G. Martin (born July 20, 1949) is an agent in international nature conservation and wilderness protection, and a writer. Martin specializes in bridging the interests of people and nature through culture, communications, science, and policy. He has worked and lived in many countries, 75 or more, and served on the boards of numerous conservation and business organizations. He founded, and from 1984 through 2022, served as President (and on the Board of Directors) of the WILD Foundation, an international conservation organization explicitly dedicated to protecting wilderness, connecting wild nature to people, and to communicating the values of wilderness and its benefits for human communities. He currently works through Wilderness Foundation Global, an international alliance based in the Global South (Cape Town, South Africa) that he co-founded in 2016. He is based in Boulder, Colorado (USA).