John Beavers

John Beavers is the Executive Director of Amazon Conservation. John has spent his career focused on conservation in Latin America ranging from on-the-ground conservation in the Maya Forest of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico to strengthening conservation organizations across Latin America. Prior to starting with Amazon Conservation in 2019, he spent seven years leading Audubon’s international conservation efforts to protect key bird habitats and biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, he worked for seventeen years with The Nature Conservancy and led the Conservancy’s Guatemala and Central America Programs. John has a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Natural Resource Economics and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Rutgers University.