Michael Soule
Michael Soule has been at the center of the global environmental movement for decades: as a scientist investigating the role of large carnivores in regulating healthy ecosystems, as an activist supporting conservation initiatives, and as a theorist engaging the thorny problem of how humans can get along with the rest of nature. He is widely recognized as the “Father of Conservation Biology.” He is professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California. He cofounded the Society for Conservation Biology and The Wildlands Project. Michael studied population biology with Paul Ehrlich and received his PhD from Stanford. He has written and/or edited eleven books and 175 articles on conservation biology and the social and policy context of conservation. He has done field work on insects, lizards, birds, and mammals in Africa, Mexico, the Adriatic, the West Indies, California and Colorado. Michael now lives near Paonia, Colorado.
