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Jeffrey Corwin (born July 11, 1967) is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known for hosting Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin, The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet, ABC's Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin/ Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin and Wildlife Nation with Jeff Corwin.
In 1993, Corwin addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations regarding the need to conserve neotropical rain forests. Corwin lectures on wildlife, gold mining, ecology, and conservation to audiences throughout the United States.
In 2003, Corwin appeared in an episode of the crime drama . In the episode, he played himself, portrayed as a former classmate of Eric Delko, played by Adam Rodriguez. Titled "Death Grip", Corwin helped detectives retrieve a human foot from inside a live crocodile. In 2003 Corwin hosted a television documentary for Animal Planet titled Giant Monsters.
In the spring of 2007, Corwin began a new TV show on the Travel Channel titled Into Alaska with Jeff Corwin. Also, in 2007, Corwin was sponsored by CNN to be an environment correspondent for an Anderson Cooper 360 special called Planet in Peril, along with co-host Sanjay Gupta.
In 2009, Corwin partnered with Defenders of Wildlife to host the documentary series Feeling the Heat. In 2009 Corwin also hosted a television special for MSNBC with the same title of his book Future Earth: 100 Heartbeats.[2]. Scientific American Blogs Corwin has been on expeditions to six of the seven continents—all except Antarctica.[3]. Washington Post
In 2011, during the tsunami in Japan, Corwin was used as a geologist on MSNBC to help explain the tsunami. The same year, he voiced an alligator expert in an episode of Hub Network Pound Puppies. Pound Puppies (2010). IMDB
In 2012, Corwin starred in a Claritin commercial as himself.
From 2011 to 2016, Corwin hosted and was an executive producer on the ABC Weekend Adventure wildlife adventure series Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin.[5]. IMDB The series won Outstanding Travel Program in the 41st Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2014, and Corwin won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Travel/Children's Series Host in 2016.
In October 2016, ABC began showing the global cruising series, Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin, which involves ecology. Five years later, he launched his current series Wildlife Nation with Jeff Corwin. It is presented by Defenders of Wildlife.
He is of Hungarian and Romanian ancestry on his father's side.
Close encounter with elephant
In filming a segment of CNN's Planet in Peril with Anderson Cooper at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 22, 2007, Corwin was the victim of a playful elephant. This rough-play consisted of the elephant putting Corwin's elbow in its mouth and wrapping its trunk around his arm, and swinging him around. He yelled as the elephant shook its head, releasing and throwing Corwin into the shallow water in which they were standing. Corwin noted that the pain was so overwhelming that he nearly blacked out, and that his arm still does not work correctly. Corwin later posted the following summary of injuries that resulted:
Personal life
Corwin lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts, with his wife Natasha and their two daughters: Maya Rose (b. July 6, 2003) and Marina (b. September 11, 2008).
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Categories: 20th-century American Biologists, 21st-century American Biologists, Wildlife Biologists, American Conservationists, Biologists From Massachusetts, Activists From Massachusetts, American Television Personalities, Daytime Emmy Award Winners, University Of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni, Bridgewater State University Alumni, People From Norwell, Massachusetts, American People Of Hungarian Descent, American People Of Romanian Descent, 1967 Births, Living People
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