MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • June 18, 2020
Michael Soulé died this week after suffering a massive brain hemorage. Michael was the founder of "conservation biology" as a scientific field distinct from "ecology." Where ecology is a neutral pursuit, he defined conservation biology as a "crisis disciple" anchored in expressly biocentric values and devoted to saving species from extinction and ecosystems from destruction. Michael was a founder and first president of the Society for Conservation Biology as well as a cofounder of The Wildlands Network.