![]() My first contact with Tom was a note that he sent me at the end of 1973, responding to a long letter that he found on his desk at World Wildlife Fund-US (WWF-US), when he started there as Vice President for Science. I had just completed an expedition to the Amazon, retracing the steps of the great 19 th century explorer-naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace, to look for rare and endangered monkeys like the very poorly known Uakaris and Bearded Sakis, and also to study turtles. I had handwritten a 20-page letter about this trip, making more than a dozen carbon copies, and had sent them to friends and supporters in the U.S. Tom was a truly special person to many in conservation, myself included. Here I pay tribute to the powerful influence this remarkable man had on my life, as he had on the lives of so many others. ![]() On Christmas morning, in his delightful historic home in front of his beloved fireplace, surrounded by family members, one of conservation’s towering figures of the last half century, Dr.
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