Editing Thomas Lovejoy (section)

=== Awards and recognitions ===
In 1996, Lovejoy was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thomas Eugene Lovejoy|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/thomas-eugene-lovejoy|access-date=2021-12-01|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref>

Lovejoy was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Thomas+E.+Lovejoy&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-01|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

In 2001, Lovejoy was the recipient of the University of Southern California's [[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement]].  Lovejoy has been granted the 2008 [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category (''ex aequo'' with William F. Laurance).

In 2001, Lovejoy received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] presented by Awards Council member [[Peter H. Raven]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2001 |title=Sylvia Earle Biography Photo |url= https://achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/#biography|quote= Dr. Sylvia Earle with renowned conservation biologists and fellow American Academy of Achievement members, Thomas E. Lovejoy and Peter H. Raven, at the 2001 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in San Antonio, Texas.}}</ref>

In 2004, a new wasp species that acts as a parasite on butterfly larvae was discovered on the Pacific slope of the Talamanca mountain range in Costa Rica by Ronald Zúñiga, a specialist in bees, wasps and ants at the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). INBio named the species ''Polycyrtus lovejoyi'' in honor of Lovejoy for his contributions in the world of biodiversity and support for INBio.<ref>{{cite news|title=INBio Discovers New Wasp Species |url=http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2004_07/Week5/07_29_04.htm#story4|newspaper=Tico Times Online Daily|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527030546/http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2004_07/Week5/07_29_04.htm#story4|archive-date=2011-05-27}}</ref>

On October 31, 2012, Lovejoy was awarded the [[Blue Planet Prize]] for being "the first scientist to academically clarify how humans are causing [[habitat fragmentation]] and pushing biological diversity towards crisis."

Lovejoy served continuously on the board of directors, from 2000, of the [[Amazon Conservation Team]], which works in partnership with indigenous people of tropical South America in conserving the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest, as well as the culture and land of its indigenous people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Conservation Team|url=http://www.amazonteam.org/|access-date=2021-01-10| website=Amazon Conservation Team|language=en}}</ref> He served on the board of directors from 2009 for the [[Amazon Conservation Association]], whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the Amazon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Conservation Association|url=http://www.amazonconservation.org/index.html|access-date=2012-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306090953/http://www.amazonconservation.org/index.html|archive-date=2012-03-06|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also an emeritus member of the board of directors for [[Population Action International]] and served on the Scientific Board of SavingSpecies (elevated to SavingNature in 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://savingnature.com/about-saving-nature/ |title=About Saving Nature |publisher=SavingNature |date=2019-07-09 |accessdate=2022-03-21}}</ref>), a conservation organization featured in a ''Nature'' magazine article about Thomas Lovejoy's scientific accomplishments.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Tollefson, Jeff |title=Forest ecology: Splinters of the Amazon |journal=Nature |volume=496 |issue=7445 |pages=286–289 |date=April 2013 |doi=10.1038/496286a |pmid=23598321|bibcode=2013Natur.496..286T |doi-access=free }}</ref>

In 2016, he was selected as a U.S. Science Envoy by the [[United States State Department]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Announcement of U.S. Science Envoys|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2016/02/253734.htm|access-date=19 May 2016|work=United States Department of State|date=26 February 2016}}</ref>

In 2018, Lovejoy co-founded the Amazon Biodiversity Center<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amazon Forest Fragments Project|url=https://www.amazonbiodiversitycenter.org|access-date=2020-07-26|website=amazon-biodiversity|language=en}}</ref> to support the work of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project.

In 2021, he was elected member of the U. S. [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2021-nas-election.html|title=News from the National Academy of Sciences|date=2021-04-26|access-date=2021-07-04|quote=Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are:  … Lovejoy, Thomas E.; university professor, department of environmental science and policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.}}, entry in member directory:{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/44493.html|title=Member Directory|access-date=2021-07-04|publisher=National Academy of Sciences}}</ref>

He died from [[pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor]] on December 25, 2021, in McLean, Virginia, at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Rhett A. |title=Tom Lovejoy, prominent conservation biologist, dies at 80 |url=https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/tom-lovejoy-prominent-conservation-biologist-dead-at-80/ |access-date=26 December 2021 |publisher=Mongabay |date=25 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dell'amore |first1=Christine |title=Thomas Lovejoy, renowned biologist who coined 'biological diversity,' dies at 80 |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/thomas-lovejoy-obituary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226041252/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/thomas-lovejoy-obituary |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |access-date=26 December 2021 |publisher=National Geographic |date=26 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="nytobit"/>