Tony King

About

Tony has been working in biodiversity conservation for over 25 years, is a member of the IUCN Conservation Translocation and Primate Specialist Groups, and has published extensively on diverse conservation issues. He spent five years at The Aspinall Foundation’s gorilla project in Congo, rescuing, rehabilitating and reintroducing gorillas, while simultaneously studying the biodiversity of the unique Batéké Plateau, and five years in Madagascar developing a project to save the greater bamboo lemur, one of the most endangered primates in the world. Tony then returned to Kent to continue developing the Foundation’s global conservation work, including the community-based conservation of other endemic species in Madagascar, the reintroduction of European bison to the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, the reinforcement of isolated gibbon and langur populations in Indonesia, and the rewilding of cheetahs and other large mammals in southern Africa. He is also active in Kent developing a local pollinator action plan.