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About Jaan Eilart
- Jaan Eilart (24 June 1933 – 18 May 2006) was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist. Eilart was born in Pala, Kirna Parish, Järva County.
- In 1957 he started teaching conservation as a subject in the Tartu State University.
- In 1958 he established the Tartu Students' Nature Protection Circle (Estonian: Tartu Üliõpilaste Looduskaitsering; TÜLKR), which is allegedly the oldest student's community dedicated to conservation, and in 1966 he established the Estonian Nature Conservation Society (Eesti Looduskaitse Selts; ELKS).
- In 1969 Eilart led the establishment of Lahemaa National Park which was the first national park in the Soviet Union.
- Later he also instructed the establishment of national parks in Komi, Armenia and Tajikistan.
- Eilart held the chair of Eastern-European Committee of IUCN from 1982 to 1990.
- He died, aged 72, in Tartu.
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