Boyd Norton

BOYD NORTON 50+ Years of Saving the World’s Wild Places

Boyd is the author/photographer of 17 books, ranging in topics from African elephants to mountain gorillas, from Siberia’s Lake Baikal to the Serengeti ecosystem. A recent book, Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning won praise from Jane Goodall, Richard Engel of NBC News, Ed Begley Jr.

His newest book is Conservation Photography Handbook: How to Save the World One Photo at a Time, with a Foreword by Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club.

Boyd is the Recipient of the Sierra Club’s 2015 Ansel Adams award for Conservation Photography. In 2010 Outdoor Photography Magazine in Great Britain listed him as “One of the 40 most influential nature photographers from around the globe.”

Boyd has been leading the battle to save the Serengeti ecosystem from destructive developments. He is co-founder and co-director of Serengeti Watch, a 501(c) 3 non-profit for preserving the Serengeti ecosystem.

He has served on the Board of Trustees for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, devoted to saving the last mountain gorillas. He wrote and photographed the book, The Mountain Gorilla (Voyageur Press, 1990) with a Foreword by Betty White.

He is a Founder and Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and a Founder and Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers.

He is one of the founders of the Hells Canyon Preservation Council started in 1967. HCPC played a major role in establishing the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and Wilderness.

Books in progress: Perfect Money - a novel, and Tickling the Dragon’s Tail: How I Once Blew Up a Nuclear Reactor and Went On To Save Wilderness Worldwide - a memoir.