Dr. Rebecca Kormos

Founding Member

Rebecca Kormos is a wildlife biologist, primatologist, conservationist, writer, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer. Rebecca studied primates in Gabon for her Phd in the early 1990s and later completed the first nationwide survey of chimpanzees in Guinea in the mid-1990s. Rebecca then worked at the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International, launching a new section of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group that focused specifically on Great Apes. For the past decade, Rebecca has focused her research on the impacts of extractive industries and dams on Great Apes through the creation of a new IUCN Task Force. She authored a new book on the intersection of women and nature called, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice.