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Episode 154

Harvey Locke
Wed, 2017-Oct-04 02:04 UTC
Length - 2:04

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Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a popular Wikipedia page every day.

With 401,023 views on Tuesday, 03 October 2017 our article of the day is Harvey Locke.

Harvey Locke is a conservationist, writer, and photographer. He is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness, wildlife and large landscape conservation. He is a founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous corridor for wildlife from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Northern Canada. In 1999 Locke was named one of Canada's leaders for the 21st century by Time Magazine Canada. In 2013, he received the J.B. Harkin Medal for Conservation and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and in 2014 he was awarded the Fred M. Packard Award for outstanding service to protected areas by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia. Locke also received in 2014 the Gold Leaf Award from the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas for his lifetime of extraordinary commitment and vision to advance the cause of parks, wilderness, ecological integrity and landscape connectivity in North America and the world. Locke is a co-founder of the Nature Needs Half Movement.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:04 UTC on Wednesday, 04 October 2017.

For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Locke.

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