Cochrane, Thomas T.

Thomas T. Cochrane is a tropical land resource specialist with over 50 years experience in the evaluation of Amazon lands. In 1963 he was contracted by the British Tropical Agricultural Mission to Bolivia to study some of the least understood lands of the Amazon. He was eventually awarded the Bolivian Government decoration "El Condor de los Andes" for his work. In 1976, CIAT (The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture) contracted him to study the entire savanna and forested land of the Amazon, which resulted in the publication of the book "Land in Tropical America." -His hobby as a pilo...