Dr Norman Myers CMG (24 August 1934- ) is a British environmentalist and authority on biodiversity. He is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rainforests are the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of life. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...

Early life

Myers was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire and studied at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1958 with a B.A. in French and German. He spent two years as a District Officer in Kenya, and taught French and English at the Delamere School for Boys, Nairobi between 1960 and 1966. During that time, he led a number of parties of boys from the school on ascents of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya and at one point he held the record for the fastest ascent of the former. Map sources for Clitheroe at grid reference SD745415 Arms of Clitheroe Town Council Clitheroe is a small town in Lancashire, England. ... Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... College name Keble College Named after John Keble Established 1870 Sister College Selwyn College Warden Prof. ... Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya. ... Kilimanjaro is a mountain in northeastern Tanzania. ... Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya, and the second-highest in Africa (after Mount Kilimanjaro). ...

Myers abandoned the relatively stable life of a schoolteacher in order to make his way as a professional photographer of African wildlife, and thence to an additional career as a freelance lecturer on the subject with an increasing interest in environmental matters. He went back to college and obtained a Ph.D from Berkeley in 1973. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as the University of California at Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Cal, California, or Berkeley) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...

Research projects

With funding from a number of bodies such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Royal Society, NASA, etc., Norman Myers began to probe areas such as the mass extinction of species and the problems of tropical deforestation, and eventually developed the concept of the biodiversity hotspot. WWF, the global environment conservation organization, was constituted and registered in 1961 pursuant to Sections 80 et seq. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Holocene extinction event is a name customarily given to the widespread, ongoing extinction of species during the modern Holocene epoch. ... Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forested. ... A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region that is both a significant reservoir of biodiversity and is threatened with destruction. ...