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CHN Board Member to Receive 2008 NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award

December 8th, 2008

George Rabb, a member of the CHN Board of Directors will be honored for his work in conservation with Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Center for Science and the Environment (NSCE). The award will be given at the 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment of NSCE to be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and the International Trade Center in Washington, DC on December 8-10, 2008. Also being honored are Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Edward O. Wilson, noted entomologist and conservationist and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

George Rabb, Ph.D., is the President Emeritus of the Chicago Zoological Society. He began his conservation career at the College of Charleston where he majored in Biology, and then earned his doctorate in zoology from the University of Michigan. In 1956 he joined Brookfield Zoo as a research zoologist. Dr. Rabb became the Director of Brookfield Zoo and President of the Chicago Zoological Society in 1976. He has been a leader in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, chairing its Species Survival Commission for nearly two decades. Most recently Dr. Rabb has been very active in organizing a response to the decrease in amphibian populations worldwide. Among many other awards, Dr. Rabb has received the Marlin Perkins Award from the America Zoos and Aquariums Association and the Society for Conservation Biology Service Award. (http://ncseonline.org/Conference/Biodiversity/cms.cfm?id=2277)

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