Juri Peepre
Regional Chair
Juri Peepre is a long time conservationist with a passion for wilderness, mountains and wild rivers. After 20 years in the Yukon, he now lives in Windermere, where he continues to work on protected area initiatives in BC and the North. Juri was the executive director of the Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and served a term as the national president of CPAWS. He was a member of the Y2Y Coordinating Committee in the early days and was the Yukon coordinator for the ten-year World Wildlife Fund Endangered Spaces campaign. Prior to moving North, Juri was the chair of the Outdoor Recreation Council of B.C. and worked as a consultant on protected areas in the province. Juri enjoys hiking and biking, paddling, skiing of all kinds, mountaineering, birding and competitive orienteering.
