Emeritus Professor Carolyn M. King FRSNZ completed a D. Phil at Oxford University, UK, on the ecology of British weasels in 1971, then moved to New Zealand to join DSIR Ecology Division as a scientist specialising on introduced predators, particularly stoats. She has written or edited many books about New Zealand animals, edited academic journals for the Royal Society of New Zealand (1983 to 2009), and took a second PhD in religious studies from the University of Waikato in 1999. From 1995 to 2018, she taught zoology and conservation biology at Waikato University, where she now continues writing part time. Her work has been recognised by prestigious awards from the Ecological Society of New Zealand (1999), the Mammal Society of UK (2005) and the Australasian Wildlife Management Society (2021).
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