Carl Safina
Ecologist and nature author
Carl Safina is an American ecologist and writer who explores how people relate to the natural world. He wrote Beyond Words, a book about what animals think and feel.
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American Born 1955 in Brooklyn, United States
About Carl Safina
Carl Safina was born in 1955 and earned a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University, where he studied seabirds. Before turning mainly to writing, he spent ten years campaigning against drift-net fishing on the high seas and for changes to American fishing policy. His books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross and Beyond Words, which looks at what animals think and feel. His work has earned MacArthur, Pew and Guggenheim fellowships, among other honors. He is the first holder of an endowed professorship in nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, and he founded the Safina Center. He presented Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina, a television series on PBS. He lives on Long Island, New York.