Enrique Beltrán
Enrique Beltrán Castillo (1903–1994) was one of Mexico's first conservationists. A student of Alfonso Herrera at the UNAM in the 1920s, Beltrán was appointed by Herrera "to head two marine commissions (in 1923 and 1926), that were established to study and improve the use of Mexico's coastal fisheries."[1]
In 1932, Beltrán received a Guggenheim Fellowship "to consult oceanographic archives in the United States and to study protozoology at Columbia University."[1]
After completing his doctorate in zoology at Columbia, from 1939-52 Beltrán headed the Department of Protozoology at Mexico's .[2]
With assistance from the , in 1952, Beltrán founded the (, or ), one of Mexico's first conservation organizations, serving as its director.[3]
In 1966, he received a medal of honor from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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- ^ Jump up to: a b Simonian, p. 133
- ^ Simonian, p. 135
- ^ Simonian, p. 136
Bibliography[]
- Marcotullio, Peter and Gordon McGranahan. 2007. Scaling urban environmental challenges: from local to global and back. United Kingdom: Earthscan. Available: books
- Simonian, Lane. 1995. Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Available: Google books. ISBN 0-292-77691-8
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