Thomas Lovejoy
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III was an American ecologist who was President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a university professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University. Lovejoy was the World Bank's chief biodiversity advisor and the lead specialist for environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as senior advisor to the president of the United Nations Foundation. In 2008, he also was the first Biodiversity Chair of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment to 2013. Previously he served as president of the Heinz Center since May 2002. Lovejoy introduced the term biological diversity to the scientific community in 1980. He was a past chair of the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the multibillion-dollar funding mechanism for developing countries in support of their obligations under international environmental conventions.
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August 22, 1941Deathday
December 25, 2021Gender
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27Place of birth
Manhattan, New York, U.S.Also known as
Thomas E. LovejoyCast credits
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The Volcano Watchers
CreatorFrogs: The Thin Green Line
CreatorParrot Confidential
CreatorA Squirrel's Guide to Success
CreatorWild Florida
CreatorNature: Great Zebra Exodus
CreatorRiver of No Return
CreatorThe Animal House
CreatorThe Himalayas
CreatorSoul of the Ocean
CreatorBig Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas
CreatorSex, Lies and Butterflies
CreatorBroken Tail: A Tiger's Last Journey
CreatorPumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains
CreatorThe Grizzlies of Siberia
CreatorIndia's Wandering Lions
CreatorSiberian Tiger Quest
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