Team – Directors
Carter Coleman • John Paul Whyatt • Nick Browne • Ion Yadigaroglu • Alan Chang • Alan Boyce • Sven Arild Andersen
Carter Coleman,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, lived in Tanzania between
1987 and 1996 and maintained strong links while away,
primarily through the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG), a widely respected
community development and reforestation organization he
established in 1991. The TFCG, which pioneered local forest
management in Tanzania, works in 140 villages in 4 mountain
ranges, has planted 10 million trees, trained 10,000 villagers
in agro-forestry, assisted hundreds of self-help groups in
micro-enterprises and protects some 1200 km2 of
high-biodiversity rainforest. The president of the New
York-based African
Rainforest Conservancy, Carter is a former journalist
who reported for Time in Africa, the author of two books and a
magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University.