The Wilderness Land Trust

"At a time when the living world is threatened by human activity more than ever before, with untold consequences for human health--from the loss of potential new medicines and medical research models to effects on food production, infectious diseases, and the availability of drinking water--the work of the Wilderness Land Trust to create and protect wilderness in order to preserve that world could not be more important."

Eric S. Chivian, M.D.

Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School;  Co-founder of the  International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985; senior editor and author, with CHGE associate Dr. Aaron Bernstein, of Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity. Time Magazine named Dr. Chivian one of the world’s 100 most influential people for 2008.