Location Arlington, Virginia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Mark Plotkin is the President and Co-Founder of the Amazon Conservation Team. He is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent almost three decades studying traditional plant use with traditional healers of tropical America.
Mr. Plotkin has previously served as Research Associate in Ethnobotanical Conservation at the Botanical Museum of Harvard
University and was Director of Plant Conservation at the World Wildlife Fund.
Mark has received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation and he Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award and was recognized an International Conservation Leadership award from the Jane Goodall Institute.
He received the honorary degree of "Doctor of Humane Letters" from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
