Who Is Wade Davis:
* An ethnobotanist & anthropologist who travels around the world
* Degrees: Anthropology, Ph.D. in ethnobotany, & biology (all from Harvard University)
* Anthropology - social science studies origins & social relationships of human beings
* Ethnography - the scientific customs of individual people & culture
* Displays passionate concern over rate which cultures and languages are disappearing -- 50 percent of the world's 7,000 languages are no longer taught to children.

* Gone worldwide as ethnobotanist (went to 15 cultural groups: the Americas, Asia, Africa, & the Arctic)
* Work has taken him to visit East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia, the high Arctic of Nunuvut, and Greenland.
* Spent over three years in Amazon & Andes as Plant explorer -> lived among 15 indigenous groups in 8 Latin American Nations. -> made 6000 botanical collections

* Wrote stories & journals about variety of people & culture
* Has published 15 books about culture around the world ( nonfiction, shared journals & letters founded, photographs of things around the world, etc.)
* Books influence readers to preserve culture diversity
* Writes about the things he learned in his adventures
* Gathers information by visiting the place and finding which was indigenous to where
* Books: Borneo Rainforest (1990), Shadows in The Sun (1993), Nomads of the Dawn (1995), One River (1996) -> Nominated for 1997 Governor General’s Literary Award For Nonfiction, and many others

(Beside: A photograph Davis has taken in Cambodia)

* Photographs has appeared in some 40 books and more than 100 magazines, journals, and newspapers.
* Photographs exhibited in International Center of Photography (I.C.P.), Annenberg Space for Photography, Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington D.C., the United Nations (Cultures on the Edge exhibition 2004), and Carpenter Center of Harvard University

* Professional speaker for over 25 years.
* Lectures about preserving culture diversity
* Lectured all around the world: American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, California Academy of Sciences, Missouri Botanical Garden, Field Museum of Natural History, New York Botanical Garden, National Geographic Society, Royal Ontario Museum, the Explorer's Club, and as well as some 150 universities

* Speeches, writing, & photography influenced people to help preserve cultural diversity
* Collected & written about the culture in travels to preserve the information about cultures

Davis is the recipient of numerous awards including:
* The Explorers Medal (2011)
* Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2009),
* The 2002 Lowell Thomas Medal Foundation
* Granted Honorary Degrees (Doctorate of Sciences) and (Doctorate of Laws) from many universities

* Subject of more than 900 media reports & interviews in Europe, North and South America, and the Far East
* Also in three episodes of a documentary series: The X-Files

Today, his success continues on as he continues to make numerous of achievements.

Citations:

*https://www.searchlock.com/mirror/p?e=1&u=http://news.ubc.ca/wp-content/upl...
*http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/13/article-2232112-15FEC50B000005DC-...
*http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/files/2014/05/140527-184143-32341.jp...
*http://www.daviswade.com/#mi=1&pt=0&pi=2&p=-1&a=-1&at=0
*https://www.ted.com/speakers/wade_davis
* https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&u...