Russell Mittermeier

Russell Alan Mittermeier (1949 - ) es un primatólogo, herpetólogo y antropólogo físico estadounidense. Es el presidente de Conservación Internacional desde 1989 y ha llevado a cabo investigaciones en más de 20 países, principalmente en Suriname, Brasil y Madagascar.^[1]​

Tiene a su haber más de 400 artículos científicos y 15 libros.^[1]​ El trabajo de campo de Mittermeier lo ha desarrollado principalmente sobre primates, zonas protegidas y sobre conservación de especies y ecosistemas.^[2]​

Russell A. Mittermeier, President of Conservation International, is an innovative, proactive and scientifically informed conservationist. A renowned primatologist and herpetologist, he has undertaken extensive field work and made major contributions to the conservation of the fauna of Madagascar, the fauna of South America (especially in Brazil and the Guianas), primates in general, and freshwater turtles worldwide. His research has been published widely in scientific and popular articles and books. He has been the major spokesman for the Hotspots Concept for more than 20 years, and also created the concepts of Megadiversity Countries and High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas. Mittermeier has authored more than 650 papers and 26 books, among them the trilogy, Megadiversity, Hotspots and Wilderness Areas, and has co-edited Conservation International’s Tropical Field Guide and pocket guide series for the past two decades. Mittermeier was born in New York City, grew up on Long Island, and went to college at Dartmouth, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. He did his graduate work at Harvard University, and received his doctorate in biological anthropology there in 1977 for a thesis entitled, “Distribution, Synecology, and Conservation of Suriname Monkeys”.

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