National Geographic and Rolex have announced a new plan to explore the Amazon Basin. It owes a great intellectual debt to one man: Dr. Thomas Lovejoy.
, the American ecologist and visionary conservationist who long labored for the protection of the Amazon forest. It’s a fitting recognition of Lovejoy, who died at 80 on December 25, 2021. He was, among his many roles and honors, a National Geographic Explorer at Large and a longtime advisor to the Society. His commitment to saving the Amazon resonates in the books he left behind, the people he inspired—and in a program called the, which the Society is launching today in partnership with Rolex.
—who died the day after Lovejoy did—a fundamental idea: Nature, to be diverse and functional and steady, must be large.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya, an Indigenous Peruvian biologist and National Geographic Explorer, walks with her dog at the Wayqecha Biological Station in the Andes near Cusco, Peru.: Pillco Huarcaya collects wild blueberries.
Near Altamira in the northern Brazilian state of Pará, a large swath of forest has been burned to clear it for cattle pasture. The white area next to it is an abandoned gold mine, and to the right of that lies a cattle ranch. Mining and ranching are both significant sources of deforestation and pollution in the Amazon. So, with his knowledge of the Amazon from his Ph.D.
Several months later, we rendezvoused in the Miami airport and boarded a plane for Manaus. He was wearing a suit, fresh from his WWF work in Washington. When we reached Manaus International Airport, next morning, it was raining torrentially. Lovejoy stepped off the plane and unfurled a collapsible umbrella. He knew the drill.
This, I think, was Tom’s unspoken point: The little things are important as well as the big ones. An individual life is valuable, even the life of one beetle, and especially so when it’s still part of the great living whole.Decades passed. Lovejoy went from WWF-US to the Smithsonian Institution to being chief biodiversity advisor at the World Bank, then onward to other positions and roles.
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