Parks Group Mourns Dr. Tom Lovejoy, Conservationist and Friend

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Tom viewed parks and protected areas as essential components of a sustainable future. Not just for fauna and flora, but for humanity.

Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, 80, renowned conservationist and longtime member of The National Parks Conservation Association, passed away Christmas Day at his home in Mclean, Virginia of pancreatic cancer. The National Parks Conservation Association mourns this loss for the scientific community, the environment, and most importantly his family and loved ones.

Though perhaps best known for his revolutionary work in the Amazon rainforest and for being the first to use the term, “biological diversity,” in 1980, Tom was also an advocate for America’s national parks and protected areas. He was a friend to NPCA, serving on our Science Advisory Council for many years, and dedicating time and resources to the fight to protect our parks.

Parks Group Mourns Dr. Tom Lovejoy, Conservationist and Friend

 

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Thomas E. Lovejoy III, an ecologist who dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest, dies at 80

Thomas E. Lovejoy III, an ecologist who dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest and educating Washington policymakers and the public about the dangers of climate change, died Dec. 25 at his home in McLean, Virginia. He was 80.

His daughter Elizabeth Lovejoy said he died of pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Lovejoy was considered one of the most consequential conservation biologists of his generation for his ability to meld field research — on how fragmented forests deplete diversity and how they can store carbon if protected — with environmental and policy work to draw attention to the plight of the Amazon, the world’s largest and most diverse rainforest.

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Tom Lovejoy, you will be dearly missed…

Sitting across from me at the dinner table in an elegant farmhouse in Northern Virginia was a smiling, youngish-looking man some 8-10 years my senior, with a bright bowtie. It was 1984 and Ian Player – WILDs founder and legendary conservationist – had just arrived from Africa to join me in the earliest stages of organizing the 4th World Wilderness Congress (Colorado, 1987). A member of our board had arranged a dinner party so that Ian and Tom Lovejoy could meet each other for the first time. In my early 30’s and freshly returned to the United States (after 15 years abroad) to organize what would be the largest global conservation Congress ever held in the USA, I was taking notes.

Tom Lovejoy, you will be dearly missed…