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Daniel B. Botkin

Solving environmental problems by understanding how nature works

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Scientifically sound information and analysis about our world

For more than 45 years, Daniel Botkin’s focus has been on seeking out the facts and making straightforward calculations from them. While this approach should be commonplace for environmental issues, in most cases major types of data have never been gathered, and the data that exist are frequently ignored and rarely analyzed.

This website seeks to correct this, with fact-based information about the world around us. Daniel Botkin’s writing brings to the reader surprising and little-known information, often providing insights quite contrary to common belief and the pronouncements of self-proclaimed pundits. Here you will find:

  • The definitive collection of online articles by Daniel Botkin
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We hope you enjoy your time on the website and that you will share it with your friends.

Saving African Elephants

Great news! My novel, TSAVO: Oddball Researchers Use Data and Guns to Save African Elephants, is being promoted by a top person in book sales. The novel helps a reader understand the confusions in our many different beliefs about nature and people, and is an exciting story based on research I did in five African Nations to try to help save Elephants. Perhaps you could share this with others. Tell them they can  download a copy by clicking on the following link: https://amzn.to/3eJshq4

From Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D

Daniel Botkin
I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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