David Houghton - National Tigers for Tigers Summit
Channel: Tiger Coalition
Date: 16/05/2013

David Houghton is the President and CEO of The National Wildlife Refuge Association (NWRA).  There he is responsible for advocating for good policy and resources for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the world's largest wildlife agency that manages 150 million acres, has 9,000 employees, with a $2.4 billion budget.  He has been involved in the conservation of nearly 700,000 acres around the country and is also actively involved with endangered species restoration and Strategic Habitat Conservation plans.  He is a leader in the NGO community for America's Great Outdoor program and collaborative landscape conservation. Prior to NWRA, David was a conservation consultant with the World Wildlife Fund South Africa and Russia, the Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust, the Great Ape World Heritage Project, The Trust for Public Land, The Conservation Fund, The Open Space Institute, the Wildlife Management Institute and of course the NWRA.  For ten years David was the Field Office Director for the Northern New England Office of the Trust for Public Land where he protected land at Rhode Island Refuge Complex, Mashpee NWR, Oxbow NWR, Rachel Carson NWR, Umbagog NWR and conserved the 171,000 acre headwaters to the Connecticut River to benefit Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.  While at TPL he was on the board of NWRA for six years.  Prior to TPL, David worked as a Deputy at Rhode Island NWRs, Acting Manager at Rachel Carson, and Biotech at Monomoy NWR.

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