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Carl Safina

Carl Safina

Award-Winning Ecologist; Bestselling Author Known for "Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel" & "Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe"

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Animals & Wildlife, Authors, Biology, Change Management, Environment, Environmental Activism, Environmental Policy, Personal Growth, Relationships
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Carl Safina Biography

Carl Safina is an award-winning ecologist and bestselling author of "Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel" & "Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe."

Safina's work has won the Lannan Literary Award, Orion Book Award, National Academies’ Science Communication Award; the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals; Pew and Guggenheim fellowships, and a MacArthur “genius” fellowship.

Safina 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.

Safina’s seabird studies earned him a doctorate from Rutgers University, then for a decade he worked on overhauling fishing policies, helping restore ocean wildlife. In the 1990s he helped lead campaigns to ban high-seas driftnets, overhaul U. S. fisheries law, improve international management of fisheries targeting tunas and sharks, achieve passage of a United Nations global fisheries treaty, and reduce albatross and sea turtle drownings on commercial fishing lines. 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.

Safina’s books include "Song for the Blue Ocean," "The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World," "A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout," and others. He hosted the 10-part PBS television series "Saving the Ocean." Carl contributes frequently to CNN, National Geographic, The New York Times, Audubon, The Huffington Post and others. His most recent TED Talk received a million views in its first month.

Audubon magazine named Carl Safina among its “100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century.” Utne Reader listed him among “25 Visionaries Changing the World.”

He is the Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He has honorary doctorates from Drexel and Long Island Universities and the State University of New York.

Safina has been profiled in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and on Nightline, and has been featured on National Public Radio; Bill Moyers’ special Earth on Edge; and on TV shows ranging from The Martha Stewart Show to The Colbert Report.

His bestselling book, "Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel," affirms his role as one of today’s leading voices for nature. In The New York Review of Books, Tim Flannery wrote: “'Beyond Words' is gloriously written… Along with Darwin’s Origin and Richard Dawkins’s Selfish Gene, 'Beyond Words' has the potential to change our relationship with the natural world.”

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/31/2025.

Carl Safina Videos

  • What can owls teach us about humanity? | Carl Safina | TEDxBoston
    What can owls teach us about humanity? | Carl Safina | TEDxBoston
    Spoiler alert: a lot. A scruffy orphan owlet was rescued and tended to by an award-winning nature author Carl Safina. He named her Alfie.
  • Carl Safina, in conversation with J. Drew Lanham Alfie and Me
    Carl Safina, in conversation with J. Drew Lanham "Alfie and Me"
    When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife Patricia took in a near-death baby owl they expected that like other wild orphans they'd rescued.
  • South Fork Sea Farmers- Carl Safina 5/25/22
    South Fork Sea Farmers- Carl Safina 5/25/22
    South Fork Sea Farmers- Carl Safina 5/25/22 ·
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Carl Safina Books

  • Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
    Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
  • Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
    Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
  • The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
    The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
  • A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
    A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
  • Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
    Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
  • Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
    Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

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