University of Alaska University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known for
Mountain gorilla conservation
Awards
• National Geographic Lifetime Achievement Award[1]
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• World Wildlife Fund Gold Medal
• International Cosmos Prize (1996)
• Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
• National Book Award
• Indianapolis Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Biologist, conservationist
Institutions
Panthera, Wildlife Conservation Society
George Beals Schaller (born 26 May 1933[4]) is an American mammalogist, biologist, conservationist and author. Schaller is recognized by many as the world's preeminent field biologist, studying wildlife throughout Africa, Asia and South America.[2][5][6][7] Born in Berlin, Schaller grew up in Germany, but moved to Missouri as a teen. He is vice president of Panthera Corporation and serves as chairman of their Cat Advisory Council. Schaller is also a senior conservationist at the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society.[1][8]
^ ab"Lifetime Achievement: Biologist George Schaller". National Geographic. 2007. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
^ abMinnesota State University. "George Schaller". Minnesota State University, Mankato. Archived from the original on September 24, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
^Biography.com (2007). "George B(eals) Schaller Biography (1933– )". Biography.com, A&E Television Networks. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
^"George Schaller at eliteprospects.com". www.eliteprospects.com.
^Bryan Walsh (October 17, 2007). "George Schaller – Heroes of the Environment". Time. Archived from the original on October 21, 2007. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
^K. Pradeep (October 1, 2006). "Man of Nature: A freewheeling chat with environmentalist George Schaller". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
^Ned Rozell (2006). "Biologist sees value in unchanged landscape". Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska – Fairbanks. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
^G. Ananthakrishnan (2006). "A country like India must have a land use plan". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
George Beals Schaller (born 26 May 1933) is an American mammalogist, biologist, conservationist and author. Schaller is recognized by many as the world's...
naturalist GeorgeSchaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya. The book recounts the journey of Matthiessen and Schaller in 1973...
Schaller, George (2007), "A Proposal for a Pamir International Peace Park", Proceedings (RMRS–P–49), United States Forest Service: 227–231 Schaller,...
Leakey); and Mt. Mikeno in Congo, where, in 1959, American zoologist GeorgeSchaller had carried out a yearlong pioneering study of the mountain gorilla...
Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan. The bharal was also the focus of GeorgeSchaller and Peter Matthiessen's expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal...
availability of food sources and usually includes several vegetation zones. GeorgeSchaller identified ten distinct zones, including: bamboo forest at 2,200–2...
river beds. In 2001, an international team of scientists, including GeorgeSchaller and Mike Belliveau, were recruited by Karl Ammann to search for apes...
Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich 1997: Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas and GeorgeSchaller 1996: Willi Dansgaard, Hans Oeschger and Claude Lorius 1995: Clair...
also wrote a book in 1929 about the great apes. After World War II, GeorgeSchaller was one of the first researchers to go into the field and study primates...
by noted Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, with Keith Hart and GeorgeSchaller, via the North Ridge. Heinz Allemann and Niklaus Lötscher made the...
Leakey's hotel, he hired her to observe gorillas, taking up where GeorgeSchaller had left off. On January 6, 1967, she arrived at the Virunga Mountains...
trees. A prominent nose with a swollen appearance caused biologist GeorgeSchaller to liken the takin to a "bee-stung moose." Features reminiscent of...
Columbia. Schaller was born on November 27, 1962, in Palo Alto, California. His father is the zoologist and animal conservationist GeorgeSchaller. During...
Karisoke Research Center, still exists in the Virunga Mountains. GeorgeSchaller Earl Denman "Virunga Mountains | Location, Description, & Facts". Chisholm...
Grover Krantz, Jeffrey Meldrum, John Bindernagel, David J. Daegling, GeorgeSchaller, Russell Mittermeier, Daris Swindler, Esteban Sarmiento, and Mireya...
Pantholops respectively, as subfamilies. In 2000, American biologist GeorgeSchaller and palaeontologist Elisabeth Vrba suggested the inclusion of Pelea...
grass, timber and fuelwood, and by illegal farming on government land. GeorgeSchaller wrote: "Most of these remnants have or soon will have reached the point...
of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals. The naturalist GeorgeSchaller has advocated the creation of an international peace park to protect...
award-winning Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction GeorgeSchaller (1955), one of the founding fathers of the wildlife conservation movement...
Lindstrom, Kenneth Love, Kate & T.J. Miller, Margaret Moore, Kay & GeorgeSchaller, Igor Sikorsky, Jr. (son of Igor Sikorsky), Jan & Romi Svatoš, Roy...
Eliot Howard James Kitching Louis Leakey Eugène Marais Kenneth Oakley GeorgeSchaller A 1964 review said "Much of African Genesis is pure speculation, much...
and Jim Lipscomb. Late in 1973, Matthiessen joined field biologist GeorgeSchaller on an expedition in the Himalaya Mountains, which was the basis for...
from the internationally renowned animal behaviourist and naturalist, GeorgeSchaller, the Chang Tang Nature Reserve was originally established by the government...
permit women to conduct fieldwork on the property. Thus, Tom Cade and GeorgeSchaller worked in the field, while Kessel wrote up results as principal investigator...
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