David Yarnold became 探花精选's 10th president in September 2010, charged with leading a turnaround that would expand 探花精选's effectiveness while building on the organization's strong conservation legacy. 聽Under his leadership, 探花精选's distributed network is becoming a coordinated, collaborative force for hemispheric conservation. With 463 local Chapters, 22 state offices and 44 探花精选 Centers across the country, 探花精选 connects nearly four million people using science, advocacy and education. "We are all 探花精选," Yarnold says. "No other organization has our wingspan when it comes to being able to drive conservation action, whether in individual backyards or in Congress."
Under Yarnold's leadership, 探花精选 is aligning its conservation work along migratory flyways, the "superhighways in the sky" that millions of birds travel each spring and fall. 聽"Flyways transcend geographical and political boundaries," he said. "They give us a literal birds-eye view of environmental issues and trends, and help direct our work. 聽Sometimes this leads us to hands-on restoration, like keeping Nebraska's Platte River vital for the Sandhill Cranes and many other species that depend on it, and sometimes it leads us to critical legislative needs, like ensuring that penalties from the gulf oil catastrophe are used to fund gulf restoration." 聽Yarnold oversees 探花精选's Important Bird Area program, which protects 370 million acres along the flyways in the US and frames our work with BirdLife International and other conservation organizations around the globe.
With expertise in climate and energy issues, Yarnold has made environmentally-friendly siting for renewable energy one of his highest priorities at 探花精选. He has launched numerous innovative social media efforts, including a national movement called And he has put cutting-edge mapping technology at the center of 探花精选's reinvention. His global background has deepened 探花精选's alliances with BirdLife International and other partners to build a hemispheric air bridge for birds as they migrate across the flyways of the Americas.听
Yarnold came to 探花精选 from the Environmental Defense Fund, where he played a leading role in expanding partnerships with corporations and helped double revenue. He also led the organization's political action arm and was its leading U.S.-based advocate for the creation of environmental markets in China. 聽A former Pulitzer Prize-winning editor at the San Jose Mercury News, he is an outspoken and eloquent advocate for birds and the environment.
Yarnold writes op eds and columns for Huffington Post, forbes.com, CNN, McClatchy News Service, and others. 聽APM's "Marketplace" , "This is not your grandmother's 探花精选 anymore." He聽has appeared on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, BBC, PBS News Hour, and The Colbert Report.
He is a marathoner, an earnest birder and he still reads sports news in the morning before anything else.
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