Wade Davis

Described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all life's diversity"

Categories: Activists, Contemporary Issues, Science and Engineering

Booking Fee Range: $5,001 - $10,000 (About Fees)

Speaker Travels From: District of Columbia - DC

An Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology, and received his PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections.

Davis' work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness and The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international bestseller which appeared in 10 languages and was later released by Universal Studios as a motion picture. His other books include Penan: Voice for the Borneo Rain Forest, Nomads of the Dawn, The Clouded Leopard, Shadows in the Sun, and One River, which was nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, Canada's most prestigious literary prize. His most recent book is Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures.

A native of British Columbia, Davis is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland. He has worked as a guide, park ranger and forestry engineer, and has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. He has published scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian voodoo and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians. Davis has written for National Geographic, Newsweek, Fortune, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and several other international publications. His photographs have been widely published, and his research has been the subject of more than 600 media reports and interviews in the United States and Canada and throughout Europe, Japan and South America. Recently Davis' work has taken him to Peru, Borneo, Tibet, the high Arctic, the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and northern Kenya.

A research associate of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden, Davis is also a board member of the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecotrust, Future Generations, and Cultural Survival, all nongovernmental organizations dedicated to conservation-based development and the protection of cultural and biological diversity.

Davis was the host and co-writer of "Earthguide," a thirteen-part television series on the environment which aired on the Discovery Channel. Other television credits include the award-winning documentaries "Spirit of the Mask," "Cry of the Forgotten People," and "Forests Forever."

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