Dr. Anthony Rose
Director of Conservation
Dr. Rose is an applied social psychologist and organization developer. He has studied macaques, humans, and other apes, and advised government agencies and private foundations on issues of forest management, military diplomacy, religious community development, educational innovation, and health care quality assurance.
Dr. Rose heads up the Gorilla Foundation's Wildlife Protectors Fund (WPF), which is the foundation's primary conservation program. WPF has been active since 1999, working to apply 30 years of interspecies communication research with Koko and Michael, and 15 years of biosynergy exploration, to help save the great apes and improve the lives of their human neighbors in Africa. You can read Dr. Rose's articles in the African Update section of Koko.org, and on his own website, the Biosynergy Institute.
Dr. Rose's oversight of Gorilla Foundation projects in Cameroon and other countries in Africa has made it possible for the Foundation's unique empathy-building approach to conservation to take root. Applying his organizational development and action research skills, Dr. Rose will enable development of best practices in synergistic community conservation to be replicated strategically across the critically endangered gorillas' homelands.
Extended Bio:
Anthony Rose is a social psychologist, author, and educator who has taught courses in learning theory, group dynamics, social change, drug education, the psychology of prejudice, human social evolution, and conservation values at universities including UCLA, UCSD, CSU San Diego & Northridge, Northern Arizona University, and Antioch University. Dr. Rose has consulted to public and private sector organizations on educational innovation, race and cross-cultural relations, community and organization development, strategic planning, action research and quality assurance.
In 1994 Dr. Rose began traveling and working worldwide for the conservation of nature. In 1999 he joined the Gorilla Foundation as its adjunct Director of Conservation, and in 2008 became a full staff member. His current work focuses on the impact of biosynergy on human development and social and ecological change, and in particular on applying the biosynergy of Projects Koko and Michael to gorilla conservation. In addition to his work with the Gorilla Foundation, Dr. Rose serves as CEO of The Biosynergy Institute, president of Altisima Press, a fellow of the WBSI International Leadership Forum, and a member of the American and International Primatological Societies and the IUCN Primate Specialists Group.
Dr. Rose founded The Biosynergy Institute in 1994 to study and advance the synergy of humanity and nature. Under the BSI umbrella he established the Epiphany Project (1994), the Bushmeat Project (1996), Wildlife Protectors Fund (with Gorilla Foundation, 1999), and Altisima Press (2002). In 2003-4 Altisima Press, with support from Conservation International and The Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation, published Rose’s extraordinary coffee table book, Consuming Nature. Based on the award-winning photography of Karl Ammann, Consuming Nature has been acclaimed as a tour de force in the battle to save rainforests, threatened wildlife, and indigenous people in their remaining homelands worldwide.
Dr. Rose has published scores of articles in scientific and popular anthologies and journals, facilitated and lectured at dozens of international conferences, and studied the synergy of social systems and nature in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Rose's original studies of natural epiphanies demonstrated the factors that affect humane values and expand world-view from ego and human centered to eco and life centered. His efforts to restore humane values worldwide and his innovative programs in conservation values education in equatorial Africa, have been supported by a host of organizations including - Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, American Zoo & Aquarium Association, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Bellerive Foundation, Gorilla Foundation, Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation, and Newman’s Own Foundation
Anthony Rose developed and taught the first laboratory course in learning & behavior modification at UCLA (1961) and earned his Ph.D. in psychology in 1967 while serving as research fellow at the UCLA Brain Research Institute. He took an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship at Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) to work with renowned humanist Carl Rogers. With Rogers and others, Rose co-founded and directed Center for Studies of the Person (CSP) in La Jolla, California. While at CSP, Rose published Growing Up Human (1974) – a pioneering book about the realization of human potential; produced educational games and films; and co-facilitated an award winning TV documentary on drug abuse prevention with Dr. Rogers and Oscar-winning director W. H. McGaw. During the past four decades Rose has consulted to scores of organizations including Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, Episcopal Archdiocese of California, US Forest Service, US Navy, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Systems Development Corporation, Union Bank, US Veterans Administration and two dozen universities and public school districts. He served seven years as director of organization design and research in the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program in Southern California and Hawaii before dedicating his live to the promotion of biosynergy and the conservation of nature.
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