John Livingston

John Allen Livingston (November 10, 1923 – January 17, 2006) was a Canadian naturalist, broadcaster, author, and teacher. He was most known as the voice-over of the Hinterland Who's Who series of television zoological shorts in the 1960s.

He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Harold Arthur Livingston, who was in the construction business, and Vera Allen Livingston. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy at the beginning of World War II and earned a degree in English literature in 1943 while on active service. He left the CBC in 1968, but remained a regular contributor of documentary films to The Nature of Things, most notably the Canadian Film Award-winning Wild Africa in 1970. He then formed LGL Limited: environmental research associates, an environmental consulting company, with Aird Lewis and Bill Gunn of the Nature Conservancy of Canada; the firm became most noted for their work on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.

Selected bibliography Darwin and the Galapagos (1966) (with Lister Sinclair) Birds of the Northern Forest (1966) (with J. F. Lansdowne) One Cosmic Instant (1968) Arctic Oil (1981) The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation (1981) Canada: A Natural History (1988) Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)