José Márcio Ayres

Sonntag, 21. Februar 1954

Freitag, 07. März 2003

José Márcio Corrêa Ayres (February 21, 1954 – March 7, 2003) was a Brazilian primatologist and conservationist who founded the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in 1996, followed by the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve in 1998. The two reserves are located in the central region of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, and are joined to adjacent Jaú National Park to form a corridor spanning over 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2) of protected rainforest. Ayres died of lung cancer in 2003 at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, United States.