Carl safina

Carl Safina in Uganda.

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Photo courtesy: Carl Safina. His work fuses scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. He grew up raising pigeons, training hawks and owls, and spending as many days and nights in the woods and on the water as he could. Carl sees that the durability of human dignity and survival of the natural world will depend on each other; we cannot preserve the wild unless we preserve human dignity, and we cannot conserve human dignity while continuing to degrade nature.

His lyrical non-fiction writing fuses scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. He began raising homing pigeons at age seven, and spent his teen years training hawks and owls, and immersed in fishing, bird-banding, and camping. Soon these passions took him on adventures in Kenya, Nepal, Greenland, Arctic Canada and eventually to all continents and oceans.

In the s he helped lead campaigns to ban high-seas driftnets, overhaul U. Along the way, he became a leading voice for conservation, widening his interests from what is at stake in the natural world to who is at stake among the non-human beings who share this astonishing planet. Carl contributes frequently to CNN. His most recent TED Talk received a million views in its first month.