Russ McSpadden

Russ McSpadden is a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity where he works to protect wildlife and wild place in the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico. His portfolio of projects includes jaguar and ocelot recovery, monitoring borderlands wildlife with trail cameras, and challenging developments, such as mining, border barriers and highways, that threaten critical habitats.

Russ is board president of La Tierra Del Jaguar, a non-profit regenerative agriculture and education site in Sonora, Mexico where the northernmost breeding population of jaguars roam wild. He is also on the advisory committee of Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection and on the steering committee of the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition.

Prior to the Center for Biological Diversity Russ worked as an editor of the Earth First! Journal and engaged in grassroots environmental and biodiversity activism.

He holds a master’s degree in environmental history from Florida Atlantic University.