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Mark Angelo, (born 14 March 1951) is a Canadian river conservationist, writer, speaker, teacher and paddler. He founded and is the chair of BC Rivers Day and World Rivers Day. In 2009, Angelo was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Rivers Institute at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Prior to that, he was the long-time head of the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program at BCIT. Angelo has received the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada in recognition of his river conservation efforts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SFU News Online - Six of Canada's finest to receive honorary degrees - May 28, 2009 )〕 In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University for his river conservation work both locally and globally.〔 == Career == Angelo graduated from the University of Montana, and then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was involved in numerous river conservation and restoration initiatives including restoring heavily damaged urban streams such as Guichon Creek in Burnaby and Still Creek in Vancouver. In the early 2000s, he was involved in cleaning up Britannia Creek, which in 2011 saw salmon return for the first time in a century. In September 1980, Angelo organized a major cleanup of the Thompson River in the southern interior of British Columbia. The event later became known as BC Rivers Day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Rivers Day )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=River clean up will celebrate World Rivers Day in Cowichan )〕 In 2005, Angelo helped set up the World River Day,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Rivers Day )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Love Your Local River On World Rivers Day )〕 a now annual event on the final Sunday in September, celebrated by millions people in more than 60 countries.〔http://worldriversday.com/documents/vansun.pdf〕 Angelo has traveled on hundreds of waterways, including the Zambezi,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Angelo paddles on the Zambezi - RiverBlue )〕 Nile, Mekong, Amazon, and Yangtze. From 2003 to 2007, he hosted the National Geographic on-line program, "Riverworld; a personal journey to the world's wildest rivers"; the program's website had more than 40 million visits. In 2007, his follow-up program, Wild Water, Wild Earth, enjoyed similar success. In late November 2011, Angelo announced his retirement from full-time work and was honored with the title, Chair Emeritus of the Rivers Institute. In 2012, the City of Burnaby honoured Angelo by naming a local city stream, Angelo Creek, after him. In 2014, the 40,000 member BC Wildlife Federation presented Angelo with the Barsby Award, the highest honour their organization can bestow, in recognition of Angelo’s lifelong efforts to protect waterways. Angelo was also installed into the Fraser River Hall of Fame at a gala event hosted by the Fraser River Discovery Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Angelo to be inducted in the Fraser River Hall of Fame )〕 In 2015, he was named as one of Canada's 100 greatest modern day explorers by ''Canadian Geographic'' magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Burnaby man named top explorer )〕 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「Mark Angelo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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