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Russell Mittermeier

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in the United States, starting as Director of their Primate Program and ending up as Vice-President for Science. He also served as an IUCN-World Conservation Union Regional Councillor for the period 2004–2012, was elected as one of IUCN-World Conservation Union's four Vice-Presidents for the period
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Russell A. Mittermeier is Chief Conservation Officer of Re:wild (formerly Global Wildlife Conservation). He served as President of Conservation International from 1989 to 2014, then Executive Vice-Chair from 2014 to 2017. He specialises in the fields of primatology, herpetology, biodiversity and
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Mittermeier has also been a leader in promoting species-focused ecotourism, particularly primate-watching and primate life-listing, and more recently turtle-watching and turtle life-listing, following the very successful model of the bird-watching community. To facilitate this, he launched a
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Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group, and he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Species Survival Commission since 1982. Before working for Conservation International, he spent 11 years at the
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and Ph.D. from Harvard University in biological anthropology for a thesis entitled, "Distribution, Synecology, and Conservation of Suriname Monkeys" in 1977.
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Mittermeier RA, Cheney DL (1987), "Conservation of Primates and Their Habitats", in Smuts BB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Wrangham RW, Struhsaker TT (eds.),
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2009–2012, and then was elected a lifetime Honorary IUCN-World Conservation Union Member in 2012. He also chaired the first
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conservation of tropical forests. He has undertaken research in more than 30 countries, including Amazonia (particularly
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Task Force on Biodiversity in 1988, which was instrumental in introducing the term "biodiversity" to that institution.
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Russell Mittermeier's writing includes 36 books and more than 700 scientific and popular articles. Among his books are
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focused heavily on primates, but including a number of other species groups as well. More recent publications include
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released in 2014. His own primate life-list, now totaling more than 350 species, is among the largest in the world.
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The twelfth annual Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Award from the Harvard Museum of Natural History (2009)
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American Society of Mammalogists Honors CI President Russell Mittermeier with Aldo Leopold Award
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In the late 1970s, Mittermeier undertook one of the first studies of the critically endangered
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The Association of Tropical Biology's Special Recognition Award for Conservation (2008)
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The Order of the Southern Cross of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil (1998)
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since 1996. More recently, he was instrumental in the creation of the 25 million Euro
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The Sir Peter Scott Award of IUCN's Species Survival Commission (2008)
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Ronald McDonald and the Jewel of the Amazon Kingdom: Storybook
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Sigma Xi's John P. McGovern Science and Society Award (2007)
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for more than two decades, and has been President of the
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Conservation International Press Release, June 21, 2006.
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Since 1977, Mittermeier has served as Chairman of the
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The Grand Sash and Order of the Yellow Star from the
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The Cincinnati Zoo Wildlife Conservation Award (1997)
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Tropical Field Guide Series and a Pocket Guide Series
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The Order of the Golden Ark from His Royal Highness
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