Mark Angelo
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Mark Angelo
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| Born | March 14, 1951 |
| Residence | Burnaby |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | conservationist |
| Spouse(s) | Kathie |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Shirley Ann Richards and Edmond Angelo |
Mark Angelo, CM OBC (born 14 March 1951) is a Canadian river conservationist, writer, speaker, teacher and paddler. He founded and is the chair of BC Rivers Day and World Rivers Day. In 2009, Angelo was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Rivers Institute at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Prior to that, he was the long-time head of the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program at BCIT. Angelo has received the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada in recognition of his river conservation efforts. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University for his river conservation work both locally and globally.
Angelo graduated from the University of Montana, and then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.
He was involved in numerous river conservation and restoration initiatives including restoring heavily damaged urban streams such as Guichon Creek in Burnaby and Still Creek in Vancouver. In the early 2000s, he was involved in cleaning up Britannia Creek, which in 2011 saw salmon return for the first time in a century. In September 1980, Angelo organized a major cleanup of the Thompson River in the southern interior of British Columbia. The event later became known as BC Rivers Day. In 2005, Angelo helped set up the World River Day, a now annual event on the final Sunday in September, celebrated by millions people in more than 60 countries.
Angelo has traveled on hundreds of waterways, including the Zambezi,Nile, Mekong, Amazon, and Yangtze. From 2003 to 2007, he hosted the National Geographic on-line program, "Riverworld; a personal journey to the world's wildest rivers"; the program's website had more than 40 million visits. In 2007, his follow-up program, Wild Water, Wild Earth, enjoyed similar success.
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