Thor Hanson is an American conservation biologist and author.
He has also contributed to a range of periodicals and other media, including the PBS program, American Spring LIVE.
[2] In the 1990s, Hanson worked as a volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Uganda and managed a tourism project regarding brown bears for the U.S. Forest Service.
[2] Outside of writing for general audiences, Hanson has also published "technical research on such topics as the ecology of tropical trees, forest fragmentation and its impact on bird nest predation, the impact that warfare can have on biodiversity hotspots, and the behaviour of Neotropical monkeys and birds.
"[3] Hanson is a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 1998, he also received the Switzer Environmental Fellowship.