Background
Labudde was born on July 3, 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States; the son of John Arthur and Bessie (Freeman) Laboratory.
Labudde was born on July 3, 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States; the son of John Arthur and Bessie (Freeman) Laboratory.
Labudde received a Bachelor of Arts in biology from the IIndiana University in 1986.
Labudde began his career as a fisheries biologist at National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle in 1987. The same year he became a staff biologist at Earth Island Institute and at Marine Mammal Fund in San Francisco, where he worked until 1994. In 1989, Samuel took a position of a field biologist at Earthtrust in Honolulu and held it for a year.
In 1990, Samuel worked as a field investigator at Friends of Animals, in Norwalk, Connecticut. The same year Labudde became a consultant at Humane Society of the United States in Washington and held it for three years. Since 1991, he has been an executive director of Endangered Species Project.
Labudde organized and led high seas expedition in 1988 to obtain first documentary evidence of Asian driftnet fleets leading to 1989 United Nations resolution banning practice. Also he organized and led successful United States/international effort to implement United States trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal trade in tigers and other endangered species.
Labudde is a member of Humane Society of the United States.
