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Scientist and Environmentalist, David Suzuki

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BIO

Dr. David Suzuki, PhD is a famous environmentalist, broadcaster and award-winning scientist from Canada. He has brought much needed attention to the environment as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Company's popular science television series, "The Nature of Things." Suzuki has used popular media to focus the world's attention on the environment and the damage that we as humans are causing. Suzuki is the founder of the David Suzuki foundation, an organization that also promotes his beliefs and environmental research and challenges consumers to change their behaviors.

Suzuki has created some of the most popular television programs related to nature, the environment, science, and people. Programs includes "The Nature of Things," "A Planet for the Taking," "The Secret of Life," "It's a Matter of Survival," "From Naked Ape to Superspecies," and the radio program "Quirks and Quarks." He is also the author of more than 32 books and published columns discussing science, the environment, and nature.

In 1990, he founded the David Suzuki Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding innovative solutions to help conserve the natural world and care for, protect and restore the environment. The organization has more than 40,000 members and is a registered charity supported by donations and grants. Major issues that the foundation focuses on include climate change, global warming, ecosystem-based forestry, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture and biodiversity. Most recently the organization has advocated for Canada to back the implementation of the United Nations Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas reduction.

"Play it Cool" is a new initiative by the David Suzuki Foundation to get winter athletes to help combat global warming and reduce greenhouse has emissions. A recent United Nations report warns that downhill skiing could completely disappear at some resorts by 2030.

Now retired from teaching, Suzuki has dedicated himself full-time to educating the public about the importance of the natural world. It's a role that places him alongside the likes of Carl Sagan and Jacques Cousteau, and makes him one of the world's most effective ambassadors of science - and our future.