Article 5TDMH Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies at age 80

Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies at age 80

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Founder of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, he discovered that habitat destruction, pollution and global heating were killing species worldwide

Thomas E Lovejoy, a leading conservation biologist who was credited with popularizing the term biological diversity", has died. He was 80.

His death was announced by George Mason University, where he was director of the Institute for a Sustainable Earth, and the Amazon Biodiversity Center, which he founded.

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