Michael Succow (born 21 April 1941 in Lüdersdorf (now part of Wriezen))[1] is a German biologist and ecologist.

When he openly sympathised with reform forces during the Prague Spring in 1969, GDR officials pressed for him to leave the university.

He then worked as a consultant for the state of Brandenburg as well as on an international level, for instance initiating seven National Parks in the country of Georgia.

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

With the prize money of the Right Livelihood Award, he founded the Michael Succow Foundation for the Protection of Nature (German: Michael-Succow-Stiftung zum Schutz der Natur),[1] which, for instance, helped Azerbaijan to create a national park programme with up to eight reserves.