27 Facts About David Helvarg

David Helvarg was born on April 10,1951 and is an American journalist and environmental activist.

David Helvarg is the founder and president of the marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier Campaign.

David Helvarg is a participant in the Seaweed rebellion, an informal marine environmentalist activist movement.

David Helvarg is an author; his writing is often related to marine environmental activism, such as his second book, Blue Frontier.

David Helvarg has reported from every continent and been widely published.

David Helvarg was born April 10,1951, in New York City, the son of refugees; his mother left Nazi Germany and his father escaped civil war in Ukraine.

David Helvarg attended Boston University and earned a bachelor's degree in history from Goddard College in Vermont, in 1974.

The civil warfare known as "The Troubles" was at a height, and David Helvarg submitted reports on the conflict to the Liberation News Service.

David Helvarg focused on the role of women in the conflict, and highlighted allegations that agents of the British government had participated in sectarian murders.

David Helvarg published "Ireland Diary; A Day in the Life" in the underground publication San Diego Door, and wrote for the weekly newspaper San Diego Newsline.

From 1979 to 1983, David Helvarg covered the US role in Central American conflicts, initially as a radio reporter for The Associated Press and Pacifica Radio in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

David Helvarg was arrested by the Salvadoran army and deported from El Salvador in 1983 while reporting on a massacre of civilians.

David Helvarg wrote reports on underwater technology, articles about John Hoagland after conducting the photographer's last interview, and an interview with Jonas Salk.

David Helvarg became increasingly involved in television production, although he continued his freelance career.

The Wise Use movement alleged that the US environmentalist group Sierra Club commissioned David Helvarg to write the book as an anti-Wise Use tirade and that his sponsors sponsored a road show to tie Wise Use to an alleged far-right terrorist network.

David Helvarg became a member of the board of Reef Relief, a more specific marine conservation advocacy group, about which he had made a television documentary in 1994.

David Helvarg captures, in a really readable way, the quirky and head-over-heels love we have for our seas.

David Helvarg investigated the Wise Use movement, which he characterizes as a network of anti-environmentalist groups.

David Helvarg identified its funding and the multinational corporations and other powerful figures with which it was associated.

David Helvarg catalogued the use of violence that he believed to be organized by the movement against environmental activists, and the ineffective response of law-enforcement agencies.

David Helvarg had accused Wise Use of astroturfing; Walker described his book as "a weapon in a propaganda war".

David Helvarg then describes some of the people and groups that are working to preserve or enhance the marine environment.

David Helvarg is the editor of Blue Frontier Campaign's first major publication: The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide, a directory for those interested in the protection and restoration of United States coastal lands and waters.

David Helvarg has produced more than 40 television documentaries broadcast by PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others.

David Helvarg is a commentator for the National Public Radio station Public Radio International's program Marketplace.

In 2003 David Helvarg founded the marine conservation activist organization Blue Frontier Campaign, of which he became the president.

David Helvarg won his first national award in 1988 when he won an Emmy for community service in recognition of his work on AIDS Lifeline, a networked television AIDS awareness campaign.