Enrique Beltrán

Enrique Beltrán Castillo (1903–1994) was one of Mexico's first conservationists. A student of Alfonso Herrera at the UNAM in the 1920s, Beltrán was appointed by Herrera "to head two marine commissions (in 1923 and 1926), that were established to study and improve the use of Mexico's coastal fisheries."

In 1932, Beltrán received a Guggenheim Fellowship "to consult oceanographic archives in the United States and to study protozoology at Columbia University."

After completing his doctorate in zoology at Columbia, from 1939-52 Beltrán headed the Department of Protozoology at Mexico's Institute of Health and Tropical Diseases.

With assistance from the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, in 1952, Beltrán founded the Mexican Institute of Renewable Natural Resources (Instituto Mexicano de Recursos Naturales Renovables, or IMERNAR), one of Mexico's first conservation organizations, serving as its director.

In 1966, he received a medal of honor from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Recursos naturales renovables : recopilación de obras / by Beltran, Enrique

    Published 1955
    Book
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    Medio ambiente : Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad. by Beltran, Enrique

    Book Chapter
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    Parques nacionales y la investigación científica. by Beltrán, Enrique

    Book Chapter
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    El hombre y su ambiente : ensayo sobre el valle de México / by Beltrán, Enrique

    Published 1958
    Book
  5. 5

    Estado empresario a la luz de la Constitución de 1980 / by Navarro Beltrán, Enrique

    Article
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    El hombre y su ambiente : ensayo sobre el valle de México / by Beltrán, Enrique, 1903-1994

    Published 1958
    Book
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    El biólogo en la conservación de los recursos naturales / by Beltran, Enrique 1903-1994

    Published 1956
    Book