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- Arlo Hemphill (born on October 7 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a wilderness conservation advocate.
He is engaged in film and digital media as a producer, writer and scientific consultant for conservation, science and natural history productions.
Arlo has also contributed as an actor and worked consistently on Los Angeles-based productions in 2007. His most notable roles were Adolf Hitler, in 42 Ways to Kill Hitler (2008) (TV), Karl on the 1,000 Ways to Die (TV) episode "Death Gets Busy" (2009) and as a secret agent in the independent short The Secret Adventures of Mr. Grant (2008). He also had a number of featured roles on television shows such as "Saving Grace" (2007), "Medium" (2005), and "Back to You" (2007). He is SAG-eligible.
His experiences in the wild range from work as a forest mapper in the Amazon to exploring river systems in southern Brazil and Paraguay, growing potatoes with traditional farmers in the high Andes, surveying reefs and shipwrecks throughout the Caribbean as a scientific diver, founding a mangrove reserve on the coast of Ecuador, and providing care for animals ranging from endangered sea turtles to Central American monkeys. He dives with great white sharks in South Africa and tiger sharks in Fiji, and has tagged elephant seals in Argentina.
Arlo's professional history includes service as Director within Conservation International's marine program and overseeing communications for Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions.
He is a Fellow National of The Explorers Club and has been listed in Nature (Myers et al. 2000) as one of 100+ global biodiversity experts, credited for his expertise pertaining to the Greater Caribbean and the Chocó-Darién-Western Ecuador biodiversity hotspots.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- In 2000, co-founded the Congal BioMarine Station, a mangrove reserve and sustainable aquaculture facility on the coast of Ecuador's Esmeraldas Province.
- Spent one year (during 1998-1999) working as a potato farmer in Ecuador's Carchi Province, an Andean region bordering Colombia. During this time, he also traveled extensively throughout the Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes, visiting remote indigenous communities and collecting rare varieties of traditional tubers.
- First visited Quito and the Ecuadorian Amazon in January of 1991.
- In 1996, spent 6 months working in Yasuni National Park for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The area is a remote corner of the Ecuadorian Amazon home to a recently contacted stone-age tribe, the Huaorani. Friendships made with individual Huaorani would prove to have major influence in his life.
- Spent the summers of 1992 and 1993 living in an abandoned sports facility on the island of Antigua, West Indies. He wore dreadlocks, was a friend of the Rastifari, and conducted his first independent field research in tropical ecology.
- It's not right that a single method of fishing being practiced by only a handful of nations could cause the extinction of species unknown to science and destroy any potential for sustainable fisheries. That is why it is incumbent on the United Nations to declare an immediate suspension of bottom trawling on the high seas.
- Bottom trawling is like trying to capture songbirds in the forest with bulldozers,
- On high seas marine protected areas: In addition to protecting high seas seamounts and corals from impacts such as deep sea bottom trawling, it is also necessary to protect vulnerable open ocean habitats like drift algae that serve as oceanic "oases" for a wide variety of species.
- In regards to a UN moratorium on high seas bottom trawling: One of the primary reasons a moratorium should be put into effect is that we simply do not know enough about the deep ocean to understand where and how it must be protected. We need the time that a moratorium will offer to explore the deep sea and better understand how to protect deep sea ecosystems and manage sustainable fisheries in high seas areas.
- In reference to high seas bottom trawling: It's like using a bulldozer in a rainforest to catch songbirds.
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