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Suckling's parents and siblings immigrated to the United States from
Ireland and England in the 1960s. He is the only member of his immediate family born in the United States. As a child, he lived with his family in Ireland, England, Peru, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts. Following the divorce of his
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The Center, which has secured protection for over 700 endangered species and 475,000,000 acres (192,225,680 ha) of habitat in the U.S., works towards environmental protection. It often comes under fire from logging, mining, pesticide, oil, coal and other industries. Suckling founded the Center for
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Greenwald D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor. 2006. Factors affecting the rate and taxonomy of species listings under the US Endangered
Species Act. In Gobel, D, M.J. Scott and F.W. Davis (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing Conservation Commitment. Washington DC: Island
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Greenwald, D.N., D.C. Crocker-Bedford, L. Broberg, K.F. Suckling, and T. Tibbetts. 2005. A review of northern goshawk habitat selection in the home range and implications for forest management in the western United States. Wildlife
Society Bulletin, 33,
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Greenwald, D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor, 2006. The listing record. In: Gobel, d., Scott, MJ, Davis, FW. (eds.) The
Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press, Washington DC.
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calls the Center "pound for pound, dollar for dollar, the most effective conservation organization in the country," and says of
Suckling: "Rimbaud reinvented poetry. Kierán Suckling would do the same with environmentalism."
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Suckling, K.F. and M.F.J. Taylor. 2006. Critical habitat and recovery. In: Gobel, d., Scott, MJ, Davis, FW. (eds.) The
Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press, Washington DC.
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Diversity while working on his doctoral dissertation in 1989. He served as executive director from 1989 to 2004, policy director from 2005 to 2007, and became executive director again in 2008.
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dubbed the Center as "the most important radical environmental group in the country" and
Suckling a "trickster, philosopher, publicity hound, master strategist, and unapologetic pain in the ass." The
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Suckling, K.F. 2006. Measuring the
Success of the Endangered Species Act, Recovery Trends in the Northeastern United States. Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, AZ.
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and participating in political rallies and teach-ins opposing U.S. intervention in
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Allen, C.D., M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F. Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P.B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. Klingel. 2002.
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Suckling, K.F. 2000. A House on Fire: Connecting the Biological and Linguistic Diversity Crises. Animal Law 6:193-202.
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