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Author Bios
ELIZABETH L. BENNETT is director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Hunting and Wildlife Trade Program. She worked in Sarawak, Malaysia, for 18 years, where she helped plan Sarawak’s protected area system and implement controls on hunting and wildlife trade. She has published widely and received many awards, including the Order of the Golden Ark from the Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard in 1994.
JAMES COMPTON is the regional director for TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, based in Kuala Lumpur. He was trained as a teacher and journalist before he began researching wildlife trade in Vietnam in 1997, where he helped establish an office for TRAFFIC Southeast Asia in 1999.
ROBERT A. COOK is vice president and chief veterinarian of the Wildlife Health Sciences Division at the Wildlife Conservation Society and has spent more than 20 years in zoo and wildlife medicine. He chairs the Animal Health Committee at the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and the Captive Wildlife and Alternative Livestock Committee at the United States Animal Health Association.
ERIC GILMAN manages the Blue Ocean Institute's Fisheries Bycatch Program. He founded and manages the Ramsar Support Grant Program, which supports implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. He has also served as an environmental advisor to the governor on the Northern Mariana Islands and the Pohnpei Port Authority of the Federated States of Micronesia.
WILLIAM B. KARESH began caring for orphan wild animals at age seven. He now directs the Wildlife Conservation Society’s International Field Veterinary Program and is chairman of the IUCN's Veterinary Specialist Group. During his career he has published over one hundred scientific articles on wildlife health and conservation issues.
TED KERASOTE has been published in over 50 periodicals and a dozen anthologies, including Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, The Best American Science, and Nature Writing 2001.He’s authored four books: Navigations, Bloodties, Heart of Home, and Out There: In The Wild In A Wired Age, and edited Return of the Wild: The Future of Our Natural Lands.
SAMUEL K. H. LEE joined the regional office of TRAFFIC East Asia in Hong Kong in 1996, with a focus on the use of threatened species in traditional medicine. He does outreach work with traditional medicine practitioners and is a representative of Project Seahorse’s Marine Medicinal Conservation Program in Hong Kong.
WALLACE J. NICHOLS is a scientist, educator, ocean activist, and author. He is the director of the Pacific Ocean region at the Blue Ocean Institute and a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he cofounded and directed the WILDCOAST international conservation team to protect coastal, wildland and ocean resources by building alliances with fishermen and ranchers.
ALAN RABINOWITZ is director of Science and Exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society. His fieldwork helped create the world’s first jaguar sanctuary in Belize, Taiwan’s largest nature reserve, and five new protected areas in Myanmar--including the world’s largest tiger reserve. He has published more than 50 scientific and popular articles and four books. Currently, he is working to establish and secure a contiguous wild jaguar corridor from Mexico to Argentina.
CARL SAFINA is president of the Blue Ocean Institute, a nonprofit he cofounded in 2003, to inspire the formation of a “sea ethic.” He is author of more than a hundred publications, including Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross. He is a recipient of the Pew Scholar’s Award in Conservation and the Environment, a World Wildlife Fund Senior Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction, the John Burroughs Writer’s Medal, and a MacArthur Prize.
GEORGE B. SCHALLER is vice president of the Science and Exploration program and holds the Ella Millbank Foshay Chair in Wildlife Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Over the past 50 years in the wilds of Asia, Africa, and South America, he has studied and helped protect animals as diverse as mountain gorillas, giant pandas, lions, and the wild sheep of the Himalayas. He is the author of numerous scientific and popular writings and 15 books, including The Year of the Gorilla, The Last Panda, and The Serengeti Lion, which received the National Book award. His other awards include the International Cosmos Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
This page was last updated on 12-14-2006.
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