NEW YORK, NY, June 14, 2007 - Wildlife Trust, the conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, announced the appointment of Robert Hoguet, MaryLee Sachs and Sarah Solmssen to its Board of Directors.

Robert Hoguet, a committed conservationist, comes to Wildlife Trust with a background in both investment banking and financial management. From 1995 to 2005, Hoguet was Senior Managing Director of Riverside Management Group, a venture capital firm. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Horsehead Resource Development Company, a leading environmental recycling company. Early in his career, Hoguet was with Kidder Peabody and Prudential Securities, where he led specialty-financing groups as a Managing Director and helped corporate and municipal clients raise over $8 billion. Hoguet graduated from Harvard College in 1963 and holds an LLB from New York University Law School, an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Certificate in Conservation Biology from Columbia's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC). "Living in New York City, one can appreciate the stress endured upon the environment on a daily basis. I admire the dedication and enthusiasm of the Wildlife Trust team and I am happy to be a part of its success as an organization," said Hoguet.

MaryLee Sachs is Chairman of Hill & Knowlton/USA and a member of the Worldwide Executive Committee. Prior to her current position, Sachs served as President and CEO of Hill & Knowlton/USA, during which time she restructured the U.S. leadership team and revamped the firm's governance, systems and marketing efforts. Sachs has over 25 years of experience, with particular expertise in consumer marketing. She has worked with and advised many blue-chip organizations including HSBC, Nivea, Kellogg Co., Procter & Gamble, Hewlitt Packard, Motorola, Mary Kay, American Express, Frito-Lay, Porsche, Pepsi-Cola, Kodak and many others. Sachs graduated from San Diego State University in 1981 with a degree in Journalism/PR, and minor in marketing. "I am very excited to be a part of Wildlife Trust and to use my expertise to further the organization's growth," said Sachs.

Sarah Solmssen, a retired lawyer and full-time mother, is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Solmssen won a Thouron Fellowship while at Penn and earned an LLB from Cambridge University in 1980. Solmssen clerked for the Hon. Boyce F. Martin of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before joining the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, where she was a member of the nationally recognized Public Finance group. Solmssen was involved in many complex public and private financings, including the multi-billion dollar new Denver Airport. Solmssen left the practice in 1991 to focus her energies on raising her three children. She has served on boards of non-profit groups in the communities where she has lived, including the board of The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA. "Wildlife Trust is making incredible strides across international boundaries to solve conservation issues on the local level by empowering scientists working within their communities," said Solmssen. "I am excited to be involved with a group that stands at the forefront of conservation medicine." Solmssen lives in London, England with her husband Peter and three children.

"As our reputation for conservation innovation grows and our accomplishments spread across the globe, it is exciting to have an increasingly talented and diverse Board in place to advance our organization's mission and goals," said Dr. Mary Pearl, President of Wildlife Trust.

About Wildlife Trust

Wildlife Trust empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystem and human health. Wildlife Trust is a conservation science innovator and leverages research expertise through strategic global alliances. Wildlife Trust pioneered the field of Conservation Medicine, a new discipline that addresses the link between ecological disruption of habitats and the effects on wildlife, livestock and human health.

Founded in 1971 by British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, Wildlife Trust has built its reputation on 35 years of global research, education, training and experience. Research and conservation work in the United States include programs in the metropolitan New York area, Florida and along the coast of the Southeastern U.S.

Internationally, Wildlife Trust trains and supports a network of scientists around the world to save endangered species and their habitats and to protect the health of vital ecosystems. Wildlife Trust created the first egalitarian international network of science-based conservation organizations called the Wildlife Trust Alliance and is a founding partner organization of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, a unique think-tank of prestigious academic institutions.

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Media Contact:
Anthony Ramos, Wildlife Trust
Director for Marketing & Communications
ramos@wildlifetrust.org
212/380-4469

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