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Brent is Vice President, Stewardship, at QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment. Much of Brent's current work involves direct exchange among professional peers working for conservation in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America, with a particular interest in civic engagement in landscape conservation. These programs reach more than 50 countries. Prior to joining the staff of QLF Mitchell lived and worked in five countries of the Caribbean and Latin America (including on-site development of the first two natural national parks in Haiti; gazetting of terrestrial and marine reserves in the Turks and Caicos Islands; and field research in wildlife ecology in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela). He worked as a field biologist for America's oldest land trust, the Trustees of Reservations, before joining QLF in 1987 to promote land trusts in eastern Canada. A member of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas, he is leading an initiative on private protected areas and recently served as editor of an issue of its journal PARKS on the subject. He works with public land management agencies in all three countries of North America, particularly the U.S. National Park Service's Conservation Study Institute.
QLF (Quebec-Labrador Foundation) is a registered charity in Canada and a 501(c)(3) publicly-supported charity in the US. Its mission is two-fold, to support the rural communities and environment of eastern Canada and New England; and create models for stewardship of natural resources and cultural heritage applicable worldwide.