MEET JEFF PHILLIPS, OUR NEW AMBASSADOR — Wild Tomorrow Fund
Jeff is Managing Director of Dawson Strategic, a consulting firm that helps organizations accomplish their mission by means of analysis, workshops and facilitation within the areas of sustainability, clear transportation, and provide chains. Jeff is a Fellow of the Canadian International Affairs Institute. Previous to becoming a member of Dawson Strategic, Jeff labored at Pure Sources Canada (NRCan) for 4 years, first as a Coverage Analyst within the Power Sector and later as a Coverage Advisor within the Deputy Minister’s Workplace. Jeff holds an M.A. Political Science from the College of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Coverage Administration (Honours) from the Arthur Kroeger School at Carleton College. Jeff’s affect, connections, and coverage experience are acknowledged and appreciated vastly by Wild Tomorrow.
Together with Jeff’s skilled background, and on a extra private notice, Jeff has at all times liked being exterior in nature and every part about animals. A favorite wild second of his which indisputably exhibits his love and appreciation for wildlife and nature is as he remembers, “Discovering myself fully enthralled watching a grizzly mother and her cub transfer gently alongside the water’s edge on a bear watching journey in lovely Port Hardy, B.C. My Dad and I went collectively and it was among the best journeys now we have ever taken. Immersing ourselves in nature and admiring wildlife from a protected and respectful distance introduced us nearer collectively. That journey is a reminder that you simply don’t at all times need to go removed from dwelling to expertise unimaginable moments with wildlife.” There actually is one thing distinctive and lifechanging about feeling near the world round you and linked to wildlife.
Investing in sustainable life and realizing the affect every of us have on the world we reside in, depend on, and share is a collective and pressing matter. Jeff’s ardour to guard wild areas and wildlife is rooted in his understanding of the interconnectedness our future depends upon from our private duty to larger programs: “It’s abundantly clear that humanity has no future if we don’t shield the wild areas and wildlife that we depend on for every part from meals manufacturing to wash water to the air we breathe. The work of Wild Tomorrow is vital to me as a result of the one method to struggle again in opposition to the fast decline in wildlife populations world wide is to guard strategically vital wild areas wealthy in biodiversity and that is precisely what Wild Tomorrow is doing within the KwaZulu-Native Area.”