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George Schaller

Field biologist and conservationist; Wildlife Conservation Society

United States · b. 1933

German-born American field biologist whose long studies of mountain gorillas, lions, tigers, snow leopards, giant pandas and Tibetan antelope established much of the modern field method in large-mammal ecology. He has worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society since the 1960s.

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Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

Certainly, if you want to get into the field of biology these days, you should also study anthropology because so much work now is with communities. How do you help communities? How do you convince communities to protect their environment? — Especially if, let’s say, you have a tiger eating your cows. The natural gesture is to kill that tiger. Well, what are the alternatives? That’s the kind of thing one is now increasingly working with.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 7 November 2017 source ↗

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