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Cyril is Founder and Executive Director of Wild Heritage, a project of Earth Island Institute. He also serves as IUCN-WCPA<\/a> Vice-Chair for World Heritage, is a member of IUCN\u2019s World Heritage Panel<\/a> and chairs the IUCN-WCPA World Heritage Network<\/a>. Cyril is also a co-founder and coordinator of IntAct: International Action for Primary Forests<\/a>. He also serves as a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s Primary Forest Task Team<\/a> and of the Griffith University Primary Forests and Climate Change Research Projects<\/a>\u00a0and is a trustee of\u00a0Wild Europe<\/a>. He was a Lui-Walton Innovator\u2019s Fellow at Conservation International<\/a> from 2016-2018 and became a National Geographic Explorer<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n

Cyril has edited several books, including A Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy<\/i> (Fulcrum Publishing) and three books in the CEMEX Nature Series: Earth\u2019s Legacy: Natural World Heritage,<\/i>\u00a0A Geography of Hope: Saving Primary Forests <\/i>and Nature\u2019s Solutions to Climate Change<\/em>. He has also published extensively in scientific and policy journals.<\/p>\n

Prior to Wild Heritage, Cyril was Vice President for Policy at the WILD Foundation, and before WILD, was Senior Director for Program Management in the President\u2019s Office at Conservation International.<\/p>\n

Cyril holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. Cyril was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management in 2015-2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Wild Heritage's mission is to protect and restore ecosystem integrity and safeguard biocultural diversity around the world and its focus in on primary forest protection, protected areas and ecological restoration. More about Wild Heritage<\/a>.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Cyril's project publications<\/h2>
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Policy brief: Ecosystem integrity maximises climate mitigation and minimises risk in international forest policy<\/a><\/h3>
16\/11\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The ecological, social and economic values of forests are widely known and avoiding their loss and degradation has been recognized in national and international policy as critical for helping address the many global problems we face. <\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Using ecosystem integrity to maximise climate mitigation and minimise risk in international forest policy<\/a><\/h3>
16\/09\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
Rules and guidelines that treat forests equally in key international policy frameworks regardless of their risk profiles limit their effectiveness and can facilitate forest degradation. Here we assess the potential for using a framework of ecosystem integrity to guide policy goals.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Mature and old-growth forests contribute to large-scale conservation targets in the United States<\/a><\/h3>
29\/07\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
Mature and old-growth forests of the United States collectively support exceptional levels of biodiversity but have declined substantially from logging and development.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Primary forests are being undervalued in the climate emergency<\/a><\/h3>
02\/06\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The world's contain irreplaceable biodiversity and are critical to the regulation of the global climate and maintaining stable carbon pools. Carbon-dense primary forests are found in every major forest biome and they typically support higher levels of biodiversity than logged forests, especially imperiled and endemic species, yet their value is not fully recognised in climate policy.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Recognising the importance of unmanaged forests to mitigate climate change<\/a><\/h3>
27\/05\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The carbon stock in Europe's forests is decreasing and the importance of protecting \u2018unmanaged\u2019 forests must be recognised in reversing this process. Scientific evidence suggests that \u2018unmanaged\u2019 forests have higher total biomass carbon stock than secondary forests being actively managed for commodity production or recently abandoned.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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The Nexus Report: Nature Based Solutions to the Biodiversity and Climate Crisis<\/a><\/h3>
16\/05\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The climate change and biodiversity crises are intertwined. The loss of biodiversity reduces the resilience of both planet and people and narrows our response options for defeating climate change. Too often, though, biodiversity and climate change are dealt with in relative isolation by governments, intergovernmental processes, and other key actors and stakeholders.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Primary forests: a priority nature-based solution<\/a><\/h3>
20\/03\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
Primary forests sequester more carbon, more safely than planted forests and offer far greater biodiversity benefits. We cannot resolve the climate or biodiversity crises without prioritising the protection of primary forests, argue members of the Primary Forests Task Force.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
\"Logging<\/a><\/div>

Protecting primary forests<\/a><\/h3>
30\/03\/2019<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
Brendan Mackey, Director of Griffith University's Climate Change Response Program, speaks at Woods Hole Research Center on March 21, 2019 on \"Protecting Primary Forests: How We Can Get There and Why it Affects Us All\".\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Prospects for sustainable logging in tropical forest<\/a><\/h3>
14\/10\/2012<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
There is a convincing body of evidence shows that, as it is presently codified, sustainable forest-management logging implemented at an industrial scale guarantees commercial and biological depletion of high-value timber species within three harvests in all three major tropical forest regions.\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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