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Kierán Suckling (born 1964) is one of the founders, and executive director, of the Center for Biological Diversity (Center), a nonprofit conservation group known for its innovative approaches to the protection of endangered species and wild places.[1] The Center, which has secured protection for over 500 endangered species and 450,000,000 acres (1,821,000 sq km) of habitat in the U.S.[2]has an excellent reputation for its scientific, litigation and media work among those in favor of environmental protection.[3] The Center often comes under fire from logging, mining, livestock and other industries.[4] Suckling founded the Center for Biological Diversity in 1989 along with Peter Galvin, Robin Silver and Todd Schulke.[5] Suckling served as executive director from 1998 to 2004, policy director from 2005 to 20007, and became executive director again in February 2008.[6]

Suckling studied computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and obtained a BA in philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross and an MA in philosophy from SUNY Stony Brook.[7] He studied natural language processing as a fellow at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information and math at Columbia University. His philosophical work was primarily in phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, modern philosophy and philosophy of language.[8]

Suckling has published numerous essays on the link between the loss of biological and cultural diversity and the essential relationship between environmentalism, the arts, and the rights of marginalized communities and people.[9][10] He has infused the traditionally staid environmental arena with an unusual degree of creative energy, leading the New Yorker to dub the Center "the most important radical environmental group in the country" and Suckling a "trickster, philosopher, publicity hound, master strategist, and unapologetic pain in the ass."[11] The LA Weekly calls the Center "pound for pound, dollar for dollar, the most effective conservation organization in the country," and says of Suckling: "Rambaud reinvented poetry. Kierán Suckling would do the same with environmentalism."[12]

Suckling has published articles assessing trends in conservation of imperiled species, the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act, the relationship between loss of linguistic and biological diversity, and the role of plants and animals in human life, language and culture.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] His more recent works are an examination of the "frog prince" stories in Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales[22] and "Three catastrophies, one sky," a reflection on mass extinctions and global warming.[23]


References

  1. ^ http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/story/, accessed April 2, 2015
  2. ^ http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/, accessed April 3, 2015
  3. ^ Humes, David. Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers And Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet. Ecco. 2009
  4. ^ Humes, David. Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers And Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet Ecco. 2009.
  5. ^ Humes, David. Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers And Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet Ecco. 2009.
  6. ^ http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/story/ accessed April 1, 2015
  7. ^ Humes, David. Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers And Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet Ecco, 2009.
  8. ^ Humes, David. Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers And Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet Ecco, 2009.
  9. ^ Suckling, K.F. 2000. A House on Fire: Connecting the Biological and Linguistic Diversity Crises. Animal Law 6:193-202.
  10. ^ Suckling, K.F. 2000. Biodiversity, Linguistic Diversity And Identity — toward an ecology of language in an age of extinction. Langscape 17:14-20. http://www.terralingua.org/Langscape/LS17.pdf
  11. ^ Lemann, Nicholas. "No People Allowed", The New Yorker, 11-22-99.
  12. ^ Zakin, Susan. "The Gods of Small Things", LA Weekly"". 11-22-2002
  13. ^ Allen, C.D., M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F. Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P.B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective. Ecological Applications 12(5):1418-1433. ttp://wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/fire/ponderosa_rest.pdf
  14. ^ Suckling, K.F., R. Slack, and B. Nowicki. 2004. Extinction and the Endangered Species Act. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ. ttp://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/programs/policy/esa/eesa.html
  15. ^ Taylor, M.F.J., K.F. Suckling and J.J. Rachlinski. 2005. The Effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act: A Quantitative Analysis BioScience 55(4):360-367. ttp://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/programs/policy/ch/sub1.html
  16. ^ Greenwald, D.N., D.C. Crocker-Bedford, L. Broberg, K.F. Suckling, and T. Tibbetts. 2005. A review of northern goshawk habitat selection in the home range and implications for forest management in the western United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 33, 120-129.
  17. ^ Greenwald D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor. 2006. Factors affecting the rate and taxonomy of species listings under the US Endangered Species Act. In Gobel, D, M.J. Scott and F.W. Davis (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing Conservation Commitment. Washington DC: Island Press
  18. ^ Suckling, K.F. and M.F.J. Taylor. 2006. Critical habitat and recovery. In: Gobel, d., Scott, MJ, Davis, FW. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press, Washington DC. P.76.
  19. ^ Greenwald, D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor, 2006. The listing record. In: Gobel, d., Scott, MJ, Davis, FW. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press, Washington DC. P.55.
  20. ^ Suckling, K.F. 2006. Measuring the Success of the Endangered Species Act, Recovery Trends in the Northeastern United States. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ.
  21. ^ Suckling, K.F. and W. Hodges. 2007. Status of the bald eagle in the Lower 48 states and the District of Columbia. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/bald_eagle/report/index.html
  22. ^ Suckling, K.F. 2007. Frogs. In: Bernheimer, K. (ed.) Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press)
  23. ^ Suckling. K.F. 2008. Three catastrophes, one sky. Terrain, v22, Summer/Fall 2008. http://www.terrain.org/columns/22/guest.htm
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