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Kierán Suckling
Kierán Suckling (born 1964) is the executive director, and one of the founders of the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit conservation group concerned with the protection of endangered species and wilderness. The Center has secured protection for more than 500 endangered species and won the establishment of over 210 million acres of federally protected habitat areas in the U.S.

Suckling founded the Center for Biological Diversity in 1989 along with Peter Galvin, Robin Silver, and Todd Schulke. Suckling served as executive director from 1989 to 2004, policy director from 2005 to 2007, and became the executive director again in February 2008.

Suckling studied computer science at Salve Regina College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, mathematics at Columbia University and artificial intelligence at the Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. He obtained a BA magna cum laude in philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross (1987) and an MA in philosophy with honors from SUNY Stony Brook (2000). His philosophical work was primarily in phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, modern philosophy and philosophy of language.

Suckling has published numerous essays on the link between the loss of biological and cultural diversity, and the essential relationship between environmentalism, the arts, and the rights of marginalized communities and people.

The New Yorker dubbed the Center “the most important radical environmental group in the country” and Suckling a “trickster, philosopher, publicity hound, master strategist, and unapologetic pain in the ass.” The LA Weekly calls the Center “pound for pound, dollar for dollar, the most effective conservation organization in the country,” concluding that “Rimbaud reinvented poetry. Kierán Suckling would do the same with environmentalism.”

Suckling has published articles assessing trends in conservation of imperiled species, the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act, the relationship between the loss of linguistic and biological diversity, and the role of plants and animals in human life, language and culture. Recent works include a bio-cultural examination of "frog prince" stories in Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales and "Three catastrophes, one sky," a reflection on mass extinctions, global warming, and the biosphere’s buffer spaces in Terrain.

Publications
Suckling, K.F. 2000. A House on Fire: Connecting the Biological and Linguistic Diversity Crises. Animal Law 6:193-202.

Suckling, K.F. 2000. Biodiversity, Linguistic Diversity And Identity — toward an ecology of language in an age of extinction. Langscape 17:14-20. www.terralingua.org/Langscape/LS17.pdf

Allen, C.D., M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F. Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P.B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective. Ecological Applications 12(5):1418-1433. wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/fire/ponderosa_rest.pdf

Suckling, K.F., R. Slack, and B. Nowicki. 2004. Extinction and the Endangered Species Act. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ. www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/programs/policy/esa/eesa.html

Taylor, M.F.J., K.F. Suckling and J.J. Rachlinski. 2005. The Effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act: A Quantitative Analysis BioScience 55(4):360-367. www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/programs/policy/ch/sub1.html

Greenwald, D.N., D.C. Crocker-Bedford, L. Broberg, K.F. Suckling, and T. Tibbetts. 2005. A review of northern goshawk habitat selection in the home range and implications for forest management in the western United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 33, 120-129.

Greenwald D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor. 2006. Factors affecting the rate and taxonomy of species listings under the US Endangered Species Act. In Gobel, D, M.J. Scott and F.W. Davis (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Washington (DC): Island Press.

Suckling, K.F. and M.F.J. Taylor. 2006. Critical habitat and recovery. In: Gobel, d., Scott, MJ, Davis, FW. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press, Washington DC. P.76.

Greenwald, D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor, 2006. The listing record. In: Gobel, d., Scott, MJ, Davis, FW. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press, Washington DC. P.55.

Suckling, K.F. 2006. Measuring the Success of the Endangered Species Act, Recovery Trends in the Northeastern United States. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ.

Suckling, K.F. 2007. Frogs. In: Bernheimer, K. (ed.) Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press)

Suckling, K.F. and W. Hodges. 2007. Status of the bald eagle in the Lower 48 states and the District of Columbia. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/bald_eagle/report/index.html

Suckling. K.F. 2008. Three catastrophes, one sky. Terrain, v22, Summer/Fall 2008. http://www.terrain.org/columns/22/guest.htm