David Suzuki

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David Suzuki, born in March 1936, is a Japanese-Canadian environmental activist, a Canadian scientist and a science broadcaster.(2009-David Suzuki, Right Livelihood Award)He has five children, three with his first wife, and two with his second wife. David Suzuki is best known for his broadcasting career and also for his pro-environmental actions.
At the age of 5, David Suzuki’s family had to move to London, Canada, having to close down their business, due to World War II. After they moved to London, Canada, David Suzuki’s family worked in a business owned by his father’s brothers, “Suzuki Brothers Construction Company”.
In 1958, David Suzuki earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from a university located in U.S. After earning a Ph.D. in zoology, at the University of Chicago, he went to the University of British Columbia. While he was studying, he was fighting for the rights of the black Americans, and many people said that, at that time, David Suzuki and Martin Luther King had similar ideologies.
After he graduated, he became an Assistant Professor in Genetics at the University of Alberta. In 1969, David Suzuki won a Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the best young Canadian scientist, and also he became a professor at the University of British Columbia until his retirement in 2001, when he became a Professor Emeritus, and he still holds this title.
David Suzuki became popular in 1971, when he started his national broadcasting career with the show “Suzuki on Science”. David Suzuki’s main shows included “A Planet for the Taking” and also “The Nature of Things”. David Suzuki was awarded the “Environmental Programme”, by the United Nations, for his television series “A planet for the Taking”, which was ...

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In 1990, David Suzuki Foundation was established, with David Suzuki being the co-founder. The David Suzuki Foundation focuses on 5 main points: making Canadians aware of how important the nature is, protecting natural systems, boosting up the economy, protecting our climate and helping the citizens to live a better and healthier life.
David Suzuki is an important role model for people, which influences not only Canada, but also the rest of the world by his actions that protect the environment and the rights of black Americans and Canada’s First Nations. He uses his broadcasting success and his experience as a scientist to warn people about the possible causes of their poor-environmental actions and to also point out the social issues that are happening around the world. David Suzuki is currently living in Vancouver with his wife and children.

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