Roger Payne

Roger Payne currently serves as Principal Advisor to Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a TED Audacious Project and nonprofit, interdisciplinary scientific and conservation initiative. Payne's many honors and awards include a knighthood in the Netherlands; a MacArthur Fellowship; a WWF Member of Honor; a UNEP Global 500 award; and Oxford University's Dawkins Prize.

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I Spent My Life Saving the Whales. Now They Might Save Us

Over 50 years ago Roger Payne discovered that whales sing. Now he has an urgent plea for the world as he confronts his own mortality.

By Roger Payne
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