The Wildlands Conservancy is thrilled and honored to announce that Mike Sweeney has joined its executive team as a Senior Advisor.
Mike joins the organization at a pivotal moment. The Wildlands Conservancy remains fiercely dedicated to the entrepreneurial spirit of protecting beautiful landscapes and majestic wildlife, and is poised to expand in numerous locations across the western United States. His visionary leadership and deep expertise are the perfect catalysts to help write this next chapter of the organization’s conservation success stories.
Mike brings over 30 years of premier environmental leadership to the role, including most recently 17 years as the Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy’s California chapter and prior to his time at TNC serving as an assistant to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. His strategic brilliance—backed by a Harvard MBA and a lifelong dedication to returning abundance to the natural world—is the perfect complement to Wildlands’ growing portfolio of Nature Preserves across California and the western United States, which constitutes the largest system of nonprofit nature preserves open to the public daily for free.
Moving forward, Mike will focus his efforts on:
- Expanding the organization’s preserve system into new geographies.
- Engaging new strategic partnerships and donor networks.
- Accelerating landscape-level rewilding initiatives.
The Wildlands Conservancy extends a warm welcome to Mike Sweeney and looks forward to this next, impactful chapter of conservation!
