John Livingston (naturalist)

John Allen Livingston (November 10, 1923 – January 17, 2006) was a Canadian naturalist, broadcaster, author, and teacher. He was most known as the voice-over of the ''Hinterland Who's Who'' series of television zoological shorts in the 1960s.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy at the beginning of World War II and earned a degree in English literature in 1943 while on active service. He joined the Audubon Society of Canada in 1955 as managing director and editor of its newsletter. He later became head of the science unit at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), most notably serving as the first executive producer of the long-running documentary series ''The Nature of Things''. He left the CBC in 1968, but remained an occasional contributor of documentary films to ''The Nature of Things'', most notably the Canadian Film Award-winning ''Wild Africa'' in 1970. He then formed LDL: Environmental Research Associates, an environmental consulting company, with Aird Lewis and Bill Gunn of the Nature Conservancy of Canada; the firm became most noted for their work on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.

Livingston was the author of several books, including ''The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation'' (1981) and the Governor General's Award-winning ''Rogue Primate'' (1994). In his later years, he was a professor emeritus of environmental studies at York University. Provided by Wikipedia