Arlo Hemphill

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.