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

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.

Education

• PhD in progress, Post-War Recovery of Large Carnivores in the Gorongosa Ecosystem, Central Mozambique.  Center for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria. 
  
• 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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Select Media & Presentations

• New York Times.  "In Mozambique, a Living Laboratory for Nature’s Renewal" by Natalie Angier.  July 2018.
  
• "On the Frontlines: The Rangers of Gorongosa."  A Gorongosa Media Production.  Premiere World Ranger Day, July 31 2018 - Maputo.
• National Geographic Society's "Expand the Field" - It only takes one woman to inspire a generation by Sarah Joseph, Senior Producer at National Geographic.
• NAT GEO INSPIRES:  Collecting data to save Gorongosa's lions by Sarah Joseph, Senior Producer at National Geographic.
• Gary Knell, President and CEO, National Geographic Society: World Lion Day: Meet Three Inspiring Women Working to Save Lions​
• National Geographic Voices: Ideas & insight from Explorers:  www.voices.nationalgeographic.com/author/pbouley/
• Best Job Ever: Lion Rescue. National Geographic online series. http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/07/best-job-ever-lion-rescue-gorongosa/
• Tracking Lion Recovery in Gorongosa National Park, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/tracking-lion-recovery-gorongosa-national-park
• Gorongosa Park - Rebirth of Paradise.  PBS & National Geographic International.   http://www.pbs.org/gorongosa/home/
• Seminário sobre Revisão da Estratégia  e Plano de Acção para  Conservação do Leão (Panthera leo) em Moçambique.  Cidade de Maputo,  4 - 5 de Novembro de 2015.  [Lion Conservation Strategy Workshop]. Presenter.
• Big Cats of Central Mozambique - the Comeback.  National Geographic Headquarters, Washington DC.  September 2013.  Presenter.
• Community-Based Programs for Salmon & Watershed Recovery. Fisheries Restoration and Science in a Changing Climate - Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference. March 2010. Poster.
• Pincetich, Steiner, Bouley. Evaluation of Coho and Steelhead Production in the SanGeronimo Valley Headwaters of the Lagunitas CreekWatershed, 2006-2008. Technical Report.
• Bouley, Steiner, Pincetich. Bringing Back the Coho Salmon: A Focus on the San Geronimo Valley Headwaters. Restoration at the Crossroads: Challenges & Solutions in the Restoration Field – Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference. March 2009. Presenter.
• Steiner & Bouley. Priority Conservation Area Designation for the San Geronimo Valley – Association of Bay Area Governments.
• Grassroots Activism and the Stand for Central California's Wild Coho Salmon – Forest and Rivers News ~ A Publication of the TREES Foundation, Winter 2007. 
• Riparian Habitat Joint Ventures Conference, December 5, 2007. Presenter. Forest and Rivers News, Winter 2007 
• Celebrating a Generation of Salmon Restoration and Recovery - 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference. Coastal Watershed Planning and Restoration Session Chair. March 2007. Coordinator and Presenter.
• Steiner & Bouley. Bringing Back the Coho of the LagunitasWatershed: Highly Impacted Intermittent Tributaries: Are they Worth Protecting? 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference. Coastal Watershed Planning and Restoration Session Chair. March 2007. Co-author.
• Celebrating a Coho Community -Coho Confab, August 2006. Presenter and Conference co-organizer.

• Watershed Recovery through Community-Based Programs - US EPA, Region 9, Water Division, San Francisco. April 18, 2007, Earth Day. Guest Speaker

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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