Orri Vigfússon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic environmentalist
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Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland
About Orri Vigfússon
- Orri Vigfússon (10 July 1942 – 1 July 2017) was an Icelandic entrepreneur and environmentalist.
- His stated objective was to "restore the abundance of wild salmon that formerly existed on both sides of the North Atlantic".In 2004 Time magazine named him a "European Hero".
- He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007 for his efforts on saving endangered species.
- In 2008, he was elected as a Senior Global Fellow to the Ashoka Fellowship.He died on 1 July 2017 in Reykjavik of lung cancer at the age of 74.
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