Thomas Lovejoy (1941–2021,) fully Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III, was an American conservation biologist. Lovejoy introduced the term biological diversity in the late 1970s. That term has become one of the most important themes of the age of climate crisis.
Born in Manhattan, New York, Lovejoy received a bachelor’s and a PhD in biology from Yale University. A leading extinction researcher with the World Wide Fund, Smithsonian Institution, World Bank, United Nationals Foundation, and other conservation organizations, Lovejoy found that habitat destruction, pollution, and global heating were snuffing out species worldwide.
Lovejoy called for restoring biologically diverse ecosystems to encourage the regrowth of native plants and animals and protect large tracts of water and land. Founder of the Amazon Biodiversity Center at George Mason University, he discovered that habitat destruction, pollution, and global heating were killing species worldwide.
Lovejoy’s publications include Climate Change and Biodiversity (2006,) Biodiversity and Climate Change (2019,) and Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet (2022.)
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Genetic engineers don’t make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.
—Thomas Lovejoy
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
—Thomas Lovejoy
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