This is a list of people who were, are, or have been prominent conservationists. Environmentalists would also work on conservation issues.
List of conservationists
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- Arthur Carhart â U.S. Forest Service official who inspired wilderness protection in the United States
- Archie Carr â zoology professor and herpetologist, prominent sea turtle conservationist
- Rachel Carson â scientist who advanced the global environmental movement
- Jimmy Carter â 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 â environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman. Owner of the company Patagonia, known for its environmental focus.
- Frederic Edwin Church â American landscape painter, famous for Twilight in the Wilderness
- Eugenie Clark â conservationist of sharks
- Clem Coetzee â (c. 1939âÂÂ7 September 2006) Zimbabwean conservationist. He developed new methods of big game conservation.
- Ernie Cooper â Canadian wildlife trade expert
- Jeff Corwin â Animal Planet host, herpetologist
- Adjany Costa â Angolan marine biologist
- Jacques Cousteau â oceanographer, marine biologist
- Cynthia Mbabazi â advocate, researcher
- Christine Jorgensen - Zoologist, ecologist and marine scientist. Professional speaker and science communicator for the conservation of wildlife and ecosystems in Far North Queensland, Australia. Founder of Wildlife Science Australia.
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- Maya Higa - American conservationist, falconer, wildlife rehabilitator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber.
- Hubert Humphrey â U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1956 who presented the first draft of the Federal Wilderness Preservation System Bill to Congress
- Celia Hunter â former president of The Wilderness Society
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- Steve Irwin â Australian zookeeper, documentary film maker and activist
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- Greg King - Author, journalist, and environmental activist who led direct action to preserve Northern Californian redwood forests in the 1980s and 1990s
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- Wangari Muta Maathai â Nobel Peace Prize recipient, founder of the Green Belt Movement, political activist
- Benton MacKaye â wilderness activist, founder of the Appalachian Trail
- Bob Marshall â principal founder of The Wilderness Society
- Louis B. Marshall â 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 â wildlife presenter and producer
- Bill Mason â wilderness author and canoeist
- Stephen Mather â conservationist who was the first director of National Park Service, as a unified federal agency to oversee National Parks administration which he ran publicity campaign to established
- Malcolm McCallum â conservation biologist who publishes on biodiversity and extinction, and established the scholarly journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology.
- Ian McTaggart-Cowan â Canadian zoologist, conservationist and television presenter
- Rodrigo MedellÃÂn â Mexican ecologist and academic
- Betty Leslie-Melville â American born writer, who along with her husband Jock Leslie-Melvile, is known for authoring ten books on conservation topics, protecting the Rothschild's giraffe in Kenya, and founding the Giraffe Centre in Lang'ata, Kenya.
- Chico Mendes â Brazilian environmentalist
- Sergio Rossetti Morosini â Brazilian-American environmentalist
- Cynthia Moss â elephant behavioural specialist, ethologist, author
- John Muir â author and preservationist, founder of the Sierra Club
- Margaret Murie â "Grandmother of the conservation movement"
- Olaus Murie â wilderness activist
- Erni Suyanti Musabine, veterinarian involved in the conservation of Sumatran tigers
- Mike Pandey
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- Ric O'Barry â former dolphin trainer for the TV show Flipper turned dolphin activist and conservationist, featured in the documentary The Cove
- Ernest Oberholtzer â one of the eight founders of The Wilderness Society
- Sigurd F. Olson â author, environmentalist, teacher, canoeist and advocate in the northern Midwest. Worked to establish Pt. Reyes, Arctic NWR, Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness
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