(died 2000) was a Japanese

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998Goldman Environmental Prize
Hirofumi Yamashita
(Retrieved on November 27, 2007) for his efforts on marine protection.

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People from Nagasaki Prefecture 2000 deaths Japanese environmentalists Japanese ichthyologists 1934 births 20th-century Japanese zoologists Goldman Environmental Prize awardees {{environmentalist-stub