Simon Pooley is the Lambert Lecturer in Environment at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the coeditor of Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean and the author of Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula.
Published Works
Discovering the Okapi
Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma
Publication Date: November 11, 2025