Archie Carr
Archie Fairly Carr (born June 16, 1909 in Mobile (Alabama) , † May 21, 1987 in Micanopy , Florida ) was an American zoologist and conservationist, specialist in sea turtles .
Carr received his PhD in zoology from the University of Florida in 1937 and then worked with Thomas Barbour at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He was a professor at the University of Florida, where he taught ecology, among other things. In the 1940s he was also a teacher in Costa Rica for some time.
He received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1952 and the John Burroughs Medal in 1957 .
His efforts to protect sea turtles and their breeding grounds led to the creation of Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica in 1975. His 1956 book The Windward Road drew attention to the threat to sea turtles and led to the creation of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (now Sea Turtle Conservancy , STC), which was active first in Costa Rica and then in the wider Caribbean.
He was a gifted linguist (who, among other things , learned the Gullah dialect from black people in the Gulf of Mexico and later various languages in the Caribbean and East Africa). For The Windward Road he received the O. Henry Award for Short Stories in 1956 and the John Burroughs Medal (1957) from the American Museum of Natural History. He was its scientific director from 1959 until his death. A nature reserve on the east coast of Florida (Melbourne and Wabasso Beach) is named after him ( Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge ) and a nature reserve on the beach of Costa Rica (Dr. Archie Carr Wildlife Refuge).
His wife Marjorie Harris Carr (1915-1997) was also an environmental activist, as was his son Archie Carr III, who was active for the New York Zoological Society in Central America.
literature
- Frederick R. Davies: The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation. Oxford University Press 2012
Fonts
- Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of The United States, Canada, and Baja California, Cornell University Press 1952
- High Jungles and Low, University of Florida Press, 1953
- Ulendo: Travels of a Naturalist in and out of Africa, Knopf 1964
- The Everglades, Time Life Books 1973
- The Reptiles, Time Life Books 1963
- So Excellent a Fishe 1967, 1984
- with Coleman J. Goin: Guide to the Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes of Florida 1955
- The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores, Knopf 1956, University of Florida Press 1980
- A Subjective Key to the Fishes of Alachua County, Florida (a satire on zoological nomenclature)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carr, Archie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carr, Archie Fairly (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American zoologist and conservationist, specialist in sea turtles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mobile, Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1987 |
| Place of death | at Micanopy , Florida |