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Birth 1955 New Orleans, Louisiana. He is about 52 or 53 today. Education University of Pennsylvania, Harvard College, Harvard Extension School, Yale and,Tufts. Mark Plotkin Honors He was the second person to get the Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explore Award, got a full scholarship to Yale. jaguar 1.jpg Rain forest 3.jpg Honors He was the second person to get the Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explore Award, got a full scholarship to Yale. Benefits He spent a lot of time in the Amazon so now we know more about the medicinal. Books Tales of a shaman’s Apprentice IMAX documentary. Was in Time Magazine and names him an “environmental hero of the planet”. lizard 1.jpg All Pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest http://www.leslietaylor.net/gallery/animals/mammals.htm http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/orchids.html http://www.rainforesteducation.com/life/canopy3.htm http://www.rainforesteducation.com/life/understory.htmhttp://www.rainforesteducation.com/life/understory3.htm All Pictures http://www.rainforesteducation.com/life/forestfloor2.htm http://www.rainforesteducation.com/life/understory3.htm http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-01/2006-01-23-voa43.cfm?CFID=68204792&CFTOKEN=51227171 Am,anda VanBuskirk mark plotkin.jpg Mark-Plotkin 2.jpg