This week's focus features famous conservationists and naturalists who have worked to
preserve our wild places. Per wikitree.com I am:
21 degrees from Ansel Adams
17 degrees from Genie Clark
21 degrees from Jacques-Yves Cousteau
30 degrees from Gerald Durrell
26 degrees from David Fleay
18 degrees from Dian Fossey
18 degrees from George Grinnell
20 degrees from Steve Irwin
19 degrees from Jack Miner
19 degrees from John Muir
21 degrees from Margaret Murie
18 degrees from Gifford Pinchot
More about them:
Ansel Adams, naturalist and photographer who used his art to encourage conservation.
Genie Clark, "The Shark Lady" known for her use of scuba diving in research.
Jacques Cousteau, marine explorer, researcher, and conservationist who helped develop
the aqua lung and shared his adventures in film.
Gerald Durrell, conservationist, author, and founder of Jersey zoo. His writings about his
family inspired the television series "The Durrells in Corfu."
David Fleay, naturalist who pioneered breeding endangered species in captivity, including
the emu and the platypus.
Dian Fossey, zoologist famous for her 18-year intensive study of gorillas.
George Bird Grinnell, founder of the National Audubon Society.
Steve Irwin, conservationist and animal enthusiast who has inspired many to care for
animals and their habitat. His wife, Terri, and their children, continue his work at their
Australia Zoo.
John Thomas Miner, "Wild Goose Jack" founded one of North America's first bird sanctuaries and was one of the first to use banding to track migratory birds.
John Muir, father of the US Parks System.
Margaret Murie, naturalist who encouraged the passage of the Wilderness Act and in
creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Gifford Pinchot, former Pennsylvania governor and a leading voice in environmental
conservation at the beginning of the 20th century.
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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.
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