Renowned tropical ecologist Thomas Lovejoy discusses his half-century of research in the Amazon basin from the first non-indigenous navigation of the world’s biggest river , to issues of possible die-back today.
Dr. Lovejoy is a professor of Science and Public Policy at George Mason University, as well as an internationally renowned ecologist and conservation biologist who has worked at the interface of science and environmental policy in the Brazilian Amazon forest since 1965. He coined the term "biological diversity" in 1980 and co-created the popular public television program "Nature" in 1982.
Dr. Lovejoy is National Geographic Fellow and serves on the advisory board for the School of Global Sustainability at Colorado State University. He has served as senior advisor to the president of the United Nations Foundation, as World Bank’s Chief Biodiversity Advisor and lead specialist for the Environment for the Latin American region, as assistant secretary for Environmental and External Affairs at the Smithsonian Institute, and as executive vice president of World Wildlife Fund-U.S., and on advisory councils in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.
