In February 2021, I interviewed Dr. Stuart Pimm, one of the founders of modern conservation biology, and published that interview in The Weekly Anthropocene, which was then email-only. Here, it’s republished for Substack!
Dr. Stuart Pimm (pictured) is currently the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University, and for decades has been recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on biodiversity, extinction, and species conservation. A lightly edited transcript of this exclusive interview follows. This writer’s questions and remarks are in bold, Dr. Pimm’s responses are in regular type. Bold italics are clarifications and extra information added after the interview.
For the NGO Dr. Pimm leads, see savingnature.earth/. For Dr. Pimm’s ResearchGate page, see researchgate.net/profile/Stuart_Pimm.
Hello, Dr. Pimm! It is an honor to be interviewing you today. Before I get into specific questions about recent studies and Saving Nature efforts, could you give me the ba…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The Weekly Anthropocene to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.