Dr. Richard W. Carroll is a noted conservationist who has been recognized with several awards for his achievements. An accomplished naturalist, he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail in 1975, one year after receiving a bachelor's degree in marine biology. He then spent five years in the Central African Republic as a Peace Corps volunteer, serving first as a fisheries extension agent in small villages and then as a wildlife biologist in isolated parks in the north of the country.
Dr. Carroll holds a PhD in forestry from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and served for thirty-five years as the vice president of the World Wildlife Fund's Africa and Madagascar programs, spending twenty years living in central Africa studying rhinos, elephants, and gorillas.
Recently retired, he is married with three children and two grandchildren.
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