Yolanda Kakabadse. Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro (b. 1948[1]) is a conservationist from Ecuador.
After studies in Educational psychology at the Catholic University of Quito,[1] she became involved in environmental issues. She was a founder of the Fundación Natura in Quito and was its executive director from 1979 to 1990. At the Rio Earth Summit, she acted as NGO liaison.[2] In 1993, she was a founder of the Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano and served until 2006 as the executive president of this NGO. From August 1998 to January 2000, she served as Minister of Environment in the government of Ecuador. From 1996 to 2004, she was president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)[3] and since January 2010, she has been president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).[4] Kakabadse is also a trustee of the Ford Foundation[2] and a board member of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction since 2004.[5] ^ Jump up to: a b Education Without Borders: Yolanda Kakabadse. M. S. Swaminathan. Shridath Ramphal. Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal GCMG AC ONZ OE OM OCC QC FRSA (born 3 October 1928) served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975 to 1990.
He previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana, from 1972 to 1975. Biography[edit] Ramphal was born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, to an Indo-Guyanese family. He was educated at King's College London and at Harvard Law School. Mohamed Kassas. Mohamed Kassas (July 6, 1921[1] - March 21, 2012) was an Egyptian botanist and conservationist.[2] He was professor emeritus for Botany at the University of Cairo.[1] He studied at the University of Cairo, where he received a B.Sc. in 1944 and a M.Sc. in 1947, and at the University of Cambridge (Ph.D. in 1950).
A specialist in the ecology of desert plants, and was among the first to publish on the topic of desertification. Kassas was an advisory member of the United Nations Environment Programme from its beginning, and from 1978 to 1984 president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[1][3] In 1981, he was appointed a member of the Shura Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Egypt.[1] ^ Jump up to: a b c d N.N.: Biography of Mohamed Kassas, MedWetCoast.
URL retrieved 2011-01-24.Jump up ^ "Egypt mourns Mohamed Kassas, the country's pioneer environmentalist". Jean Georges Baer definition of Jean Georges Baer in the Free Online Encyclopedia. Warning!
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Jr.
(January 15, 1904[1] – February 15, 1985[2]) was an American zoologist and a founding director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as well as of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).[3] Coolidge was born in Boston, Massachusetts; his father Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Sr. (1870–1934) was the brother of Archibald Cary Coolidge. Coolidge studied at Milton Academy and at the University of Arizona before entering Harvard. Originally, he had wanted to become a diplomat, like his uncle Archibald Cary Coolidge, but he soon turned to biology, specializing in primatology.[4] After getting a B.S. from Harvard in 1927, he worked as curator at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Coolidge participated in the Kelly-Roosevelt Expedition to Asia in 1928/29,[5] and in 1937, he organized and led the Asiatic Primate Expedition through northwest Tonkin and northern Laos to study gibbons.[5] Selected publications[edit] References[edit]
Archibald Cary Coolidge. Archibald Cary Coolidge (March 6, 1866–January 14, 1928)[1] was an American educator.
He was a Professor of History at Harvard College from 1908 and the first Director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death. Bourliere.html. François Bourlière, 1913–93. Roger Heim. Roger Heim (February 12, 1900 – September 17, 1979) was a French botanist specialising in mycology and tropical phytopathology.
He was known for his studies describing the anatomy of the mushroom hymenium, the systematics and phylogeny of higher fungi (especially the related genera Lactarius and Russula, the Russulales and Secotium), the mycology of tropical fungi such as Termitomyces, as well as ethnomycological work on hallucinogenic fungi, like Psilocybe and Stropharia. In his career he published over 560 articles, scientific reviews, and major works in fields like botany, chemistry, education, forestry, horticulture, liberal arts, medicine and zoology.[1] Career[edit] Heim studied at the École Centrale Paris (D.Sc., 1931) and Uppsala University, Sweden (Hon.
Ph.D.) Heim studied with ethnomycologist R. He was also a member of the French Académie d'agriculture and the Académie d'architecture. Major publications[edit]