Mario Baudoin
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Mario Jorge Baudoin Weeks (September 4, 1942 – May 18, 2019) was a Bolivian biologist and conservationist known for his research in Bolivia and Costa Rica. He was the first director of Bolivia's national park system,[1] and served as director of several academic and government institutes, including the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Bolivia, the Institute of Ecology at Higher University of San Andrés, Dirección Nacional Conservación de Biodiversidad (DNCB) and the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.[2][3] In the early 1990s he was involved in the creation of the Servicio Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (SERNAP), which led to the 1995 establishment of Madidi National Park.[2] He received the 2008 Distinguished Services Award from the Society for Conservation Biology.
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- ^ a b c "Profesor Mario Baudoin, una vida de aporte a la ciencia y al medio ambiente". Periódico Digital PIEB (in Spanish). 21 May 2019.
- ^ "Mario Baudoin: un convencido de la protección a la biodiversidad". Archivo Documental Isiboro Sécure (in European Spanish). 22 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae: Mario Jorge Baudoin Weeks". Biodiversity and Economically Important Species in the Tropical Andes. 23 March 2003. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-262-69266-3.
- JSTOR 41760352.
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