Arlo Hemphill

Birthday: 7 October 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Height: 183 cm

Arlo Hemphill (born on October 7 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a wilderness conservation advocate.He is engaged in film and digital media as a producer, writer and scientific consultant for conservation, science and natural history productions.Arlo has also contributed as an actor and worked consistently on Los Angeles-based productions in 2007. His most notable roles were Adolf Hitler, in 42 Ways to Kill Hitler (2008) (TV), Karl on the 1,000 Ways to Die (TV) episode "Death Gets Busy" (2009) and as a secret agent in the independent short The Secret Adventures of Mr. Grant (2008). He also had a number of featured roles on television shows such as "Saving Grace" (2007), "Medium" (2005), and "Back to You" (2007). He is SAG-eligible.His experiences in the wild range from work as a forest mapper in the Amazon to exploring river systems in southern Brazil and Paraguay, growing potatoes with traditional farmers in the high Andes, surveying reefs and shipwrecks throughout the Caribbean as a scientific diver, founding a mangrove reserve on the coast of Ecuador, and providing care for animals ranging from endangered sea turtles to Central American monkeys. He dives with great white sharks in South Africa and tiger sharks in Fiji, and has tagged elephant seals in Argentina.Arlo's professional history includes service as Director within Conservation International's marine program and overseeing communications for Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions.He is a Fellow National of The Explorers Club and has been listed in Nature (Myers et al. 2000) as one of 100+ global biodiversity experts, credited for his expertise pertaining to the Greater Caribbean and the Chocó-Darién-Western Ecuador biodiversity hotspots. Show less «

Even that goal is going to be devastating for the ocean. [in reference to the target of +2C global t...Show more »

Even that goal is going to be devastating for the ocean. [in reference to the target of +2C global temperature rise] Show less «

In regards to a UN moratorium on high seas bottom trawling: One of the primary reasons a moratorium ...Show more »

In regards to a UN moratorium on high seas bottom trawling: One of the primary reasons a moratorium should be put into effect is that we simply do not know enough about the deep ocean to understand where and how it must be protected. We need the time that a moratorium will offer to explore the deep sea and better understand how to protect deep sea ecosystems and manage sustainable fisheries in high seas areas. Show less «

On high seas marine protected areas: In addition to protecting high seas seamounts and corals from i...Show more »

On high seas marine protected areas: In addition to protecting high seas seamounts and corals from impacts such as deep sea bottom trawling, it is also necessary to protect vulnerable open ocean habitats like drift algae that serve as oceanic "oases" for a wide variety of species. Show less «

In reference to high seas bottom trawling: It's like using a bulldozer in a rainforest to catch song...Show more »

In reference to high seas bottom trawling: It's like using a bulldozer in a rainforest to catch songbirds. Show less «

The good news is that the world has finally caught on to the value of marine protected areas, and th...Show more »

The good news is that the world has finally caught on to the value of marine protected areas, and their rate of creation, effective management and enforcement are proliferating worldwide. Show less «

It's not right that a single method of fishing being practiced by only a handful of nations could ca...Show more »

It's not right that a single method of fishing being practiced by only a handful of nations could cause the extinction of species unknown to science and destroy any potential for sustainable fisheries. That is why it is incumbent on the United Nations to declare an immediate suspension of bottom trawling on the high seas. Show less «

The one and only reason to go here is for the novelty of taking your picture spread eagle across the...Show more »

The one and only reason to go here is for the novelty of taking your picture spread eagle across the Northern and Southern hemispheres. [In reference to Mitad de Mundo, Ecuador] Show less «

We need to find ways to mitigate and adapt to what's coming down the pipe. It's an immense thing we'...Show more »

We need to find ways to mitigate and adapt to what's coming down the pipe. It's an immense thing we're asking people to do. [In reference to climate change] Show less «

Unfortunately, L.A. has a lot to learn from mass-transit systems of other large cities, and the spra...Show more »

Unfortunately, L.A. has a lot to learn from mass-transit systems of other large cities, and the sprawl of a boom era is increasingly impractical. Expansion of our metro system would be a good start. Show less «

I've never been a big fan of touring old churches, but this one stands alone. [Iglesia de San Franis...Show more »

I've never been a big fan of touring old churches, but this one stands alone. [Iglesia de San Franisco de Quito] Show less «

I actually support (SB 236), I think it's beneficial to our bays in reducing the nutrient runoff.

You're after a target deep sea fish, but basically you're mowing down these deep sea corals. [In ref...Show more »

You're after a target deep sea fish, but basically you're mowing down these deep sea corals. [In reference to high seas bottom trawling] Show less «

Bottom trawling is like trying to capture songbirds in the forest with bulldozers,

You could be eating a fish that was born at the time of Napoleon. [In reference to the consumption o...Show more »

You could be eating a fish that was born at the time of Napoleon. [In reference to the consumption of orange roughy and other deep sea fishes]. Show less «

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