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Darron Collins
Managing Director Amur-Heilong
Education
- PhD - Anthropology, Tulane University
- MA - Latin American Studies, Tulane University
- BA - Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic
Areas of Expertise
- Ethnobotany
- Indigenous people and conservation
- Sustainable forest management
- Forest products trade
- Community conservation
"Reversing the trend toward extinction is difficult but not impossible. We helped bring the tiger back from the brink and now it's the Amur leopard's turn."
About Darron Collins:
Darron Collins is a cultural anthropologist, writer and managing director of Creative Assets at World Wildlife Fund. He's been with WWF for nearly 10 years in a variety of positions, most recently overseeing our conservation program in the Amur watershed of Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.
Darron received a BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic and a PhD in anthropology from Tulane University. Both degrees, and his programmatic work at WWF, focused on the human side of conservation, trying to answer the question: "How can we meet the needs of human communities while improving the ecological integrity of the surrounding ecosystem?"
He lived for six years in New Orleans during his life as a graduate student at Tulane and developed a strong connection to the region during that time. "My first-born, Maggie, was born in New Orleans and I want her to be able to catch a redfish and eat crawfish some day," he says.
Darron currently writes, photographs and produces narratives in a variety of forms that best tell what WWF is all about and how the organization goes about its work.
