Noel Kempff Mercado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bolivian scientist
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Place of Birth: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
About Noel Kempff Mercado
- Noel Kempff Mercado (February 27, 1924 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia – September 5, 1986 in the SerranĂa de Caparuch, Bolivia) was a Bolivian biologist and environmentalist. Kempff Mercado studied at the University of Santa Cruz where he received his B.Sc.
- in 1946.
- During a field campaign in the Huanchaca Nationalpark in 1986 he and several other scientists discovered a cocaine factory in the Bolivian forest.
- Kempff Mercado and most of the scientists were killed by the criminals.
- The Huanchaca National Park was renamed in 1988 as Noel Kempff Mercado National Park.
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