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Thomas Lovejoy
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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 professo…
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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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2024
Back to Camp 41
Movie Self
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2022
Soul of the Ocean
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2021
Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas
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2021
Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains
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2020
Wild Florida
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2019
S.O.S. Amazonas: Apokalypse im Regenwald
Movie Self
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2018
A Squirrel's Guide to Success
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2018
Sex, Lies and Butterflies
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2017
H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter
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2016
India's Wandering Lions
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2016
River of Gold
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2014
Invasion of the Killer Whales
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2013
Parrot Confidential
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2013
Nature: Great Zebra Exodus
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2012
Siberian Tiger Quest
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2012
River of No Return
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2011
The Animal House
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2011
Outback Pelicans
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2011
The Himalayas
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2011
Broken Tail: A Tiger's Last Journey
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2010
Echo: An Elephant to Remember
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2009
Frogs: The Thin Green Line
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2007
The Beauty of Ugly
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2004
Ireland
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1999
The Grizzlies of Siberia
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1987
The Volcano Watchers
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1982
Nature
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