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This is a list of people who are, or have been, prominent conservationists. Environmentalists will also work on conservation issues. ==List of conservationists== * Edward Abbey - writer and wilderness activist * Ansel Adams - wilderness and landscape photographer * Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer of polar regions * Traven Apiki - Wilderness enthusiast and activist * Sammie Ellsworth - Wilderness adventurer, enthusiast, and activist * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury – former president of Sir David Attenborough's British Butterfly Conservation Society * David Attenborough - host of many BBC Natural History documentaries, naturalist, educator * David Bwakali - (environmental writer ), (Journal editor ), (compassionate conservationist ) * Nena Baltazar - President of Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi, a Bolivian nongovernmental organization working in conservation and wildlife care * S. Theodore Baskaran - wildlife conservationist. * Tom Bell — Founder of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and decorated World War II veteran * Frances Beinecke - President of the Natural Resources Defense Council * Daniel Boone - famous wilderness explorer * Harvey Broome - wilderness activist * David Brower - mid-20th century leader of the Sierra Club * Tom Brown – naturalist * Arthur Carhart - U.S. Forest Service official who inspired wilderness protection in the United States * Archie Carr - zoology professor and herpetologist, prominent sea turtle conservationist * Rachel Carson - scientist who advanced the global environmental movement * Jimmy Carter - signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980, which protected more land than any single piece of legislation ever passed by Congress * Yvon Chouinard - environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman. Owner of the company Patagonia, known for its environmental focus. * Frederic Edwin Church - American landscape painter, famous for ''Twilight in the Wilderness'' * Eugenie Clark - conservationist of sharks * Clem Coetzee - (c. 1939 – 7 September 2006) was a Zimbabwean conservationist. He developed new methods of big game conservation. * Ernie Cooper - Canadian wildlife trade expert * Jeff Corwin - naturalist, Animal Planet host, herpetologist * Jacques Cousteau - oceanographer, marine biologist * William O. Douglas - U.S. Supreme Court Justice who was an ardent conservationist. William O. Douglas Wilderness is named after him. * Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, writer, television presenter, founder of the Jersey Wildlife Conservation Trust (now Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) and the Jersey Zoo (now renamed Durrell Wildlife Park). * Dwight D. Eisenhower - the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge became a federally protected wilderness area during his administration * Dian Fossey - primatologist known for studying gorillas, author, founder of the Digit Fund today known as the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, was murdered presumably by poachers because of her cause * Bernard Frank - one of the founders of The Wilderness Society * Jane Goodall - primatologist known for studying chimpanzees, author, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute * George Bird Grinnell - prominent early American conservationist * Hubert Humphrey - U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1956 who presented the first draft of the Federal Wilderness Preservation System Bill to Congress * Celia Hunter - former president of The Wilderness Society * Steve Irwin - Australian zookeeper, documentary film maker and activist * Lyndon Baines Johnson - signed the Wilderness Act on September 3, 1964, which permanently guaranteed millions of acres of wild land for future generations of Americans * Aldo Leopold – ecologist, forester and environmentalist; author of ''A Sand County Almanac'' * A. Starker Leopold - son of Aldo Leopold, zoologist and ecologist, writer of the Leopold Report * Wangari Maathai - Nobel Peace Prize recipient, founder of the Green Belt Movement, political activist * Benton MacKaye - wilderness activist, founder of the Appalachian Trail * Bob Marshall - principal founder of The Wilderness Society * Louis B. Marshall - constitutional lawyer who was instrumental in passing "forever wild" legislation of N.Y.S. Constitution, which permanently protected wilderness in Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves * Nigel Marven - wildlife presenter and producer * Bill Mason - wilderness author and canoeist * John Muir - author and preservationist, founder of the Sierra Club * Margaret Murie - "Grandmother of the conservation movement" * Vijaypal Baghel - An ambassador of greenery * Olaus Murie - wilderness activist * Abi Kusno Nachran - Indonesian rainforest preservation activist * Roderick Nash - author of "Wilderness and the American Mind" * Lone Drøscher Nielsen - working, with Borneo Orangutan Survival for conservation of Bornean orangutans and orangutan habitat. * Aletris Neils - Director Conservation CATalyst, conservationist, mitigating human-wildlife conflict, mammalogist * Ric O'Barry - former dolphin trainer for the TV show Flipper turned dolphin activist and conservationist, featured in the documentary ''The Cove'' * Ernest Oberholtzer - one of the eight founders of The Wilderness Society * Sigurd F. Olson - Author, environmentalist, teacher, canoeist and advocate in the northern Midwest. Worked to establish Pt. Reyes, Arctic NWR, Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness. * Gifford Pinchot - conservationist, first Chief of the United States Forest Service * Ian Player – international conservationist * Carl Pope - executive director of the Sierra Club * Alan Rabinowitz - President and CEO of Panthera Corporation, a conservation organization devoted to protecting the world's 36 cat species * Phil Radford - environmental, clean energy, and democracy leader, director of Greenpeace * Theodore Roosevelt - set aside of federal land for national parks and nature preserves. He was also instrumental in establishing the United States Forest Service. * Peter Scott - (1909–1989) Founder of the World Wildlife Fund and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and the first conservationist to be knighted (in 1973). * William H. Seward - United States Secretary of State who acquired Alaska from Russia for two cents per acre. Seward's Folly is the largest remaining wilderness in North America * Charles Alexander Sheldon - the "Father of Denali National Park" * Willie Smits - working, with Borneo Orangutan Survival for conservation of Bornean orangutans and orangutan habitat * Gary Tabor, conservation catalyst, founder and director of (Center for Large Landscape Conservation ) * Doug Tompkins and Kristine Tompkins - entrepreneurs turned conservationists; together have protected in Chile and Argentina. * Henry David Thoreau – author, naturalist and development critic * Stewart Udall - United States Secretary of the Interior when the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 * Marlice van Vuuren - Conservationist and broadcaster * Paul Watson - Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a co-founder of Greenpeace, and the star of the television show Whale Wars on Animal Planet that documents his organization's yearly trip to the southern ocean to disrupt the illegal activities of Japanese Whalers/ ICR. * Robert K. Watson - Founder and Father of LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design * David B. Wingate - Saved the Bermuda petrel, or cahow, from extinction and almost single-handedly returned 15-acre Nonsuch Island, in Bermuda, to its precolonial state * Robert Sterling Yard - a founding member of The Wilderness Society * Howard Zahniser - leader of The Wilderness Society, drafted the Wilderness Act * John Muir * Chico Mendes, Brazilian environmentalist * Subhransu Satpathy, Indian Conservationist and environmental Film maker 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of conservationists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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