​Ecologist by training, conservationist in practice.  My training, background and experience includes marine and terrestrial ecology, community-based restoration, and wildlife rescue and veterinary.  Favorite place on Earth to sleep: Fakarava [Havaiki-te-araro], Tuamotu, French Polynesia.  ​Favorite place on Earth to lose sleep:  Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Associate Director - Dept. of Conservation.  Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.   2012-current.  
National Geographic Society Explorer & Big Cat Initiative Grantee.  2014-2019.

Education

• M.S. Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies & San Francisco State University, 2005.
• B.S. with honors in Marine Biology, Department of Biology at University of California at Santa Cruz, 2001.​​​

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Publications

• P. Bouley, N.H. Carter, M. Poulos, R. Branco.  Post-War Recovery of the African Lion in Response to Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration.  2018.
• Neil H. Carter, Paola Bouley, Sean Moore, Michael Poulos and Stuart Pimm. Climate change, cattle disease, and the future of lions. 2018.​


• ​P  Bouley, M Isadore, T Carroll.  2015. Return of North American River Otters, Lontra canadensis, to Coastal Habitats of the San Francisco Bay Area, California.  Northwestern Naturalist 96(1):1-12.  Link here.

 

• P. Bouley, W. J. Kimmerer.  2006. Ecology of a highly abundant, introduced cyclopoid copepod in a temperate estuary.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 324:219-228.

 

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Awards & Leadership

• Director & Co-Founder ~ Gorongosa Lion Project, May 2012 - current.
• WildCam Gorongosa ​- A joint Gorongosa Project and Howard Hughes Medical Institute project.
  
• Co-Founder & Executive Director ~ River Otter Ecology Project, 2012 & 2013.
• Outstanding Alumna Award ~ Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, May 2010.
• Employee of the Year ~ Turtle Island Restoration Network, Dec 2009.
• Peter Behr Memorial Steward of the Land Award ~ Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, June 2008.
• Ted Wellman Water Award ~ Marin Conservation League, 2008.
• Sustainable Fairfax Board President, February 2009 – September 2010.
• Co-Founder ~ 10,000 Raingardens Project.
• Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, Student Association President. 2003.

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