Dr. Ashley Brooks is Re:wild’s Asia Director, leading all of Re:wild’s programmes toward halting regional species extinctions, supporting regional conservation guardians, enhancing the work of regional partners and scaling up work across Re:wild’s priority landscapes in the Annamite Mountains, and the megadiverse islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Mindoro and New Guinea.
Most recently, Ashley served as Restoration Director and then NCS Conservation Director for Conservation International in Asia Pacific, where he led the identification of high-quality NCS project opportunities throughout Asia Pacific. Prior to joining CI, Ashley worked for WWF International’s Tigers Alive Initiative for 8 years, where he led the program to maintain tiger landscape connectivity and minimize contact with people across the tiger’s range. Here, he developed a suite of innovative strategies with local partners and governments for human-tiger conflict, landscape connectivity and smart green infrastructure, national tiger action plans, transboundary conservation, and putting people at the centre of tiger conservation. Before supporting tiger conservation, Ashley managed the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program in Papua New Guinea for Woodland Park Zoo.