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- Birth nameWilliam Gaylord Conway
- William G. Conway was born on November 20, 1929 in Webster Groves, Missouri, USA. He died on October 21, 2021 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- In 1956, he became bird curator for the Bronx Zoo, subsequently zoo director, general director, and president of the New York Zoological Society. He focused the society on wildlife conservation as well as upon zoos and aquariums leading to its 1993 name change to Wildlife Conservation Society, and the development of hundreds of conservation programs in over 50 nations. In 1999, he became a senior conservationist with Wildlife Conservation Society.
- Zoologist and conservationist.
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