David Suzuki is Canada's finest science broadcaster. He also carries a global reputation as a geneticist, professor, public lecturer, and environmental and civil rights activist. A third-generation Japanese-Canadian, Suzuki, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 24, 1936, was raised in the back of the family dry cleaner's shop. He went on weekly fishing and camping trips, ... his father pointed out all the animals, birds, trees, and plants they encountered. It was these trips that shaped his interest in nature. Like most Japanese-Canadians living on Canada's West coast, as a consequen...

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