31 Facts About Harvey Locke

Harvey Locke is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness, wildlife and large landscape conservation.

Harvey Locke is a founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous corridor for wildlife from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Northern Canada.

In 2017, Locke was appointed chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force, with the goal of ensuring the new global conservation targets set at the next Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2020 are meaningful for achieving the conservation of nature and halting of biodiversity loss.

In 1999 Harvey Locke was named one of Canada's leaders for the 21st century by Time magazine Canada.

Harvey Locke received in 2014 the Gold Leaf Award from the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas for his lifetime of extraordinary commitment and vision to advance the cause of parks, wilderness, ecological integrity and landscape connectivity in North America and the world.

Harvey Locke is a co-founder of the Nature Needs Half Movement.

Harvey Locke was a lawyer and partner at MacKimmie Matthews law firm in downtown Calgary for 14 years and served as volunteer president of both Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the Alberta Liberal Party.

In 1999, Harvey Locke became a full-time conservationist dedicated to national parks, wilderness, large landscape and connectivity conservation and climate change.

Harvey Locke served as president or vice president of the CPAWS for many years, and he is its senior advisor on conservation.

Harvey Locke is a founder and senior advisor for Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and was the Vice President for Conservation Strategy at the WILD Foundation in Boulder, Colorado from 2009 through 2011.

Harvey Locke's writing and photography have been published in newspapers, magazines and peer reviewed journals in nine countries.

Harvey Locke has lectured at many universities and spoken on national parks, wilderness and large landscape conservation at conferences around the world.

Harvey Locke has testified on national parks legislation before Parliamentary committees, and led conservation campaigns.

In 1999, Harvey Locke was named one of Time magazine Canada's leaders for the 21st century.

In October 2009, Harvey Locke was invited as the keynote speaker for the inaugural Thomas Foundation Oration in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy and the Thomas Foundation Oration in Australia during that country's first Linking Landscape Summit and spoke in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

Harvey Locke gave the closing plenary at WILD 9 which launched the global Nature Needs Half movement.

Harvey Locke has been invited to engage on parks and wilderness in Europe.

Harvey Locke spoke at the Czech EC Presidency Conference on Wilderness in Prague, Czech Republic in 2009, gave a keynote speech on Europe's National Parks in a global context for Europarc Federation in Abruzzo, Italy in October 2010, spoke at the Belgian EC Presidency Conference on Wilderness Restoration in Brussels in November 2010, and at the launch of the Rewilding Europe initiative in Brussels, November 2010.

In 2013, Harvey Locke spoke in Ootacamund and in Mumbai, India about large landscape conservation and Nature Needs Half and wrote a feature story on those ideas for Sanctuary Asia.

Harvey Locke is a frequent keynote speaker at major conservation conferences and universities throughout North America.

Harvey Locke gave keynote speeches in Banff, Canada on International Leadership, Parks Canada's Contribution to the world at the official 125th anniversary celebration of Canada's National Park System in November 2010 and at the Sixteenth Annual Symposium of the Stegner Center, Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century on Large Landscape Conservation in March 2011.

Harvey Locke conceived and co-curated the 2011 art show, Yellowstone to Yukon: the Journey of Wildlife and Art, a collaboration of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada, artist Dwayne Harty, and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

Harvey Locke is a past board member of the Nature Conservancy of Montana, as well as past president and director emeritus of the Wildlands Project.

Harvey Locke served as program advisor to Tides Canada Foundation and to the Canadian Boreal Initiative.

Harvey Locke was senior program officer for the environment at the Henry P Kendall Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts.

Harvey Locke serves on the World Commission on Protected Areas; and served on the executive committees of the Eighth World Wilderness Congress and Ninth World Wilderness Congress ; a board member of the Freedom to Roam initiative; and trustee of the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation in Banff.

Harvey Locke is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Harvey Locke's photography has been published in numerous books, magazines, websites and newspapers including The New York Times, Wildlife Conservation, Canadian Geographic, Backpacker, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Agence France-Presse, Aeromexico in-flight magazine Escala, and Sanctuary Asia.

Harvey Locke's photographs are used extensively by conservation groups around the world and were shown at the American Museum of Natural History for the Yellowstone to Yukon exhibit in 2006.

Harvey Locke was the Liberal candidate in the provincial district of Calgary-Foothills in the 1989 Alberta provincial election, narrowly losing to Progressive Conservative Pat Black.

Harvey Locke went on to serve as President of the Alberta Liberal Party from 1995 to 1997, and chaired the party's 1997 election campaign.