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Bill Eddy's involvement with the environment has spanned four decades and five continents. He has held positions with the New York Zoological Society, the Conservation Foundation, The African Wildlife Foundation, and the U.S. National Park Service.
Over the past 40 years, he has made 25 trips to Africa, where he has developed public awareness programs devoted to the conservation of wildlife in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.
In the 1980's the U.S. Peace Corps invited him to help establish training programs to increase environmental understanding in a number of Central American, Caribbean, and African countries. His work as a consultant with the U.S. Park Service involved him in a variety of projects in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
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As a filmmaker, he has made several documentaries for the Park Service as well as a number of Swahili language films on wildlife conservation that have been seen by millions of people throughout East Africa.
In 1993 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vermont where he taught environmental studies for 22 years before retiring in 1999 as professor emeritus.
He and his wife Beryl live on a farm in Vermont's Northeast
Kingdom. Contact
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