Pioneer|Alumni Newsletter
|Alumni Newsletter PioneerVOL. 21 NO. 1 SPRING 2016 1982 Pioneer Patrick Bergin a citizen of the world By John Moody lands and Conservation Service Centers, part because of U-High’s status as part of the latter he played a major role in con- ISU,” Bergin said. An urgent part of his ceptualizing. He was also instrumental in job these days is the plight of the African developing AWF’s current five-year plan. elephant. On January 1, 2002, AWF’s chairman According to awf.org, 35,000 African of the board, Stuart T. Saunders Jr., an- elephants are killed each year by poachers nounced that Bergin was the organization’s illegally harvesting their tusks. In some new president and chief executive officer. parts of Africa, elephant populations have AWF’s mission is to “ensure the wildlife declined by more than 60 percent. and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.” China is the largest market for Is it unusual for a guy who studied elephant tusks, but China and the U.S. English and spent much of his career recently announced a commitment to working so closely with people to be “take significant and timely steps to halt Patrick Bergin, U-High Class of 1982, chosen to lead such a group? the domestic commercial trade of ivory” has lived in Africa since 1988. So, how “Interestingly, my specialty is in com- in their respective countries. does one get from Normal, or Bergin’s munity development and ‘people’ work,” Bergin’s response, according to AWF, hometown of Merna, to be exact, to Bergin said.
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