Doug Vincent (Photo courtesy of Doug Vincent)

Doug Vincent

Doug Vincent is the habitat acquisition manager for the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) in Alberta. He oversees all conservation aspects of Alberta’s land acquisition program. He is the primary contact for landowners who are considering working with NCC, and he spends a portion of the day talking to them about the conservation tools NCC can provide to help them conserve their land. He also conducts the preliminary assessments for potential new projects, commission appraisals, and negotiates and complete land transactions.

Doug joined the NCC team in January 2017. After several years in the consulting world, he was looking for something more fulfilling and where he could really make a difference on the ground.

Doug has an undergraduate degree in forest conservation and an MSc in forestry, with a focus on wildlife management from Lakehead University. He was a natural area manager with NCC before moving into this role. Previously, he was a wildlife biologist with an environmental consulting firm, where he conducted various baseline wildlife surveys to support environmental assessments in Alberta and BC.

During his academic career, he travelled to Ecuador to determine the habitat requirements of the endangered vicuna, conducted forest surveys in northern Manitoba, and worked in collaboration with Parks Canada, Ontario Parks and the U.S. National Park Service to investigate the effects of beavers on forest succession in protected areas.