April 21, 1999

WORLD BANK EXPERT TO SPEAK AT KU ON BIODIVERSITY

LAWRENCE -- The World Bank's chief biodiversity adviser will give a public lecture at the University of Kansas titled "Biodiversity: Roles of Multilateral Institutions, Bilaterals, Nongovernmental Organizations and the Private Sector" at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, in 1005 Haworth Hall.

Thomas Lovejoy is chief biodiversity adviser to the World Bank and an expert on Latin American environmental issues. He serves as counselor to the secretary for biodiversity and environmental affairs at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lovejoy is a tropical biologist and conservation biologist who is credited with having brought the tropical rain forest problem to the fore as a public issue. He originated the concept of debt-for-nature swaps, contributed to the creation of the public television series "Nature," and has served as scientific adviser to the secretary of interior and to the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program. From 1973 to 1987, he directed the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., and he has served on the President's Council of Advisers in Science and Technology and the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. He is the author of "Key Environments: Amazonia" with G.T. Prance and "Global Warming and Biological Diversity" with R.L. Peters.

Lovejoy's lecture is sponsored by the KU Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and by the KU Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center.

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