Tim Means (environmentalist)

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Tim "Timoteo" Means
Entrepreneur
Known forSaving Isla Espíritu Santo Founding Baja Expeditions

Timothy "Timoteo" Irwin Means Heinemann (March 13, 1944 – August 13, 2019) was an American Mexican

Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO.[1] In 2007, Mexico named the Isla Espíritu Santo
Archipelago a national park.

Biography

Timothy Irwin Means was born on March 18, 1944, in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania to Melvin Wayne and Flora Agnes Heinemann. His father was an electrician, who worked as a lineman for an Arizona phone company and later at the Hoover Dam. His mother was a homemaker.

Means pioneered adventure trips to Baja California Sur in 1974,[2] to help spur visitors into conviction and action.

With an emphasis on

Natural History
Society Niparajá A.C..

For 45 years Means worked with fishermen, filmmakers, scientists and politicians to draw attention to the depletion of sea life and loss of wild lands posed by overfishing and development, working with American and Mexican environmentalists and patrons to help preserve Isla Espíritu Santo.[5]

Means became a Mexican citizen in 1993.[6]

Death

Tim Means died in San Diego on August 13, 2019, five months after his 75th birthday from Diabetic ketoacidosis.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Heritage site". Islas del Golfo de California Biosphere Reserve. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  2. ^ "Tim Means, Adventure Travel Pioneer in Baja California Sur". Adventure Travel Trade Association. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  3. ^ "Roughing it in Rugged Baja Desert". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  4. ^ "Where The Whales Are". Los Angeles Times. 15 February 1998. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  5. ^ "Saving Espiritu Santo". Bryan Jáuregui. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  6. ^ "Los que llegaron - Estadounidenses". Canal 11. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  7. ^ Seelye, Katharine Q. (21 August 2019). "Obituary". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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