Noel Kempff Mercado

Noel Kempff Mercado (February 27, 1924 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia – September 5, 1986 in the Serranía de Caparuch, Bolivia) was a Bolivian biologist and environmentalist.

Kempff Mercado studied at the University of Santa Cruz where also 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.

References

• Laura Riley, William Riley Nature's strongholds: the world's great wildlife reserves Princeton University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-691-12219-9
• Museum Noel Kempff
• Chronik Boliviens 1986-07-14
• Thoumi, Francisco E. (2003). Woodrow Wilson Center Press Series: Illegal drugs, economy and society in the Andes. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 254–255. ISBN 978-0-8018-7854-1. 
• Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert, Historia de Bolivia, Editorial Gisbert, La Paz, 2008, 7e éd., 739 p. (ISBN 9789990583335), p. 584