David Suzuki Institute

David Suzuki CC OBC FRSC
Suzuki in 2009
Born	David Takayoshi Suzuki (1936-03-24) March 24, 1936 (age 81) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Residence	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Institutions	University of British Columbia
Alma mater	Amherst College, B.A. (1958) University of Chicago, Ph.D. (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Bill Baker
Other academic advisors	Bill Hexter Dan Lindsley
Influences	Ian McTaggart-Cowan
Notable awards	Order of Canada, (1976, 2006) UNESCO's Kalinga Prize (1986) Right Livelihood Award (2009)
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David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC FRSC (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.

A longtime activist to reverse global climate change, Suzuki co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, to work "to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that does sustain us." The Foundation's priorities are: oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and Suzuki's Nature Challenge. The Foundation also works on ways to help protect the oceans from large oil spills such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Suzuki has also served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982 to 1987.