1. Mark J Plotkin was born on May 21,1955 and is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems.
10 Facts About Mark Plotkin
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Mark Plotkin completed his bachelor of liberal arts degree at Harvard University's Harvard Extension School, his master's degree in forestry at Yale School of Forestry, and his Ph.
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Mark Plotkin went on to do research at Harvard under Richard Evans Schultes.
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Mark Plotkin is the author of the book Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice.
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Mark Plotkin continues to work with the Tirio of Suriname, and in Brazil as well.
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Mark Plotkin is featured in the 1997 IMAX film Amazon, written by photojournalist Loren McIntyre.
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Mark Plotkin received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation and the Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award.
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In May 2010, Mark Plotkin received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
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Mark Plotkin was interviewed in 1998 by South American Explorer magazine, just after the release of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and the IMAX movie Amazon:.
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Medicine Quest: Mark Plotkin continues to address topics discussed in the previous work, exploring searches for new medicine from nature around the world.