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Craig Groves

Craig Groves is currently Conservation Approach Director at The Nature Conservancy where he specializes in land/ocean interface and interaction. Previously, he worked as Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Greater Yellowstone Program where he oversaw several wildlife research and conservation projects and was involved in conservation planning at the landscape level.

He is a North American representative to the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management where he serves on an international task force to revise the IUCN System of Management Categories for Protected Areas.
Groves was one of the principal players in launching and implementing ecoregional conservation planning efforts. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book on conservation planning, Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning for Biodiversity.

Groves has published over 40 papers and book chapters on the ecology of various nongame species, the management of at-risk species, and planning for biodiversity conservation.

Drafting a Conservation Blueprint

A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity

Drafting a Conservation Blueprint lays out for the first time in book form a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions. In an engaging and accessible style, the author explains how to develop a regional conservation plan and offers experience-based guidance that brings together relevant information from the fields of ecology, conservation biology, planning, and policy.

Endangered Species Recovery

Finding the Lessons, Improving the Process

Endangered Species Recovery presents case studies of prominent species recovery programs in an attempt to explore and analyze their successes, failures, and problems, and to begin to find ways of improving the process. It is the first effort to engage social scientists as well as biologists in a wide-ranging analysis and discussion of endangered species conservation, and provides valuable insight into the policy and implementation framework of species recovery programs.