Billionaire Dutch businessman, philanthropist, outspoken environmentalist and wildlife conservationist Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, who owned the 81,000-acre Letterewe Estate in Scotland, as well as nature reserves in England and wetland reserves in the Netherlands, and who founded the Africa Parks Foundation (APF) developing parks in Malawi, Zambia and Ethiopia, has lost his life to pancreatic cancer.

Paul van Vlissingen and the van Vlissingen family are well-known in the Netherlands for the many generations of interest and efforts on behalf of wildlife. He was said to be involved in environmental causes on every continent. To promote responsible management of nature, he appeared in television programs with Prince Charles. In addition, he was a published author and spoke publicly on environmental causes.

A few excerpts from his obituary read:

"He supported human population control, but believed it could be attained only through choice and empowering women through education and equality."

Noting how as a boy Van Vlissingen spent much of his time outdoors, reading voraciously and writing poetry, his parents joked: "We have three children and a gypsy."

"He was convinced that continual change is the oxygen a company needs for its survival. He was also convinced that both fun and challenges in the working environment were important for all, and he evolved a managerial style which emphasized respect for, and investment in, people."

When Van Vlissingen was diagnosed with cancer, he founded the Van Vlissingen Cancer Fund in the Netherlands. Paul Fentener van Vlissingen was 65. Fascinating man.

MTV -- the ultimate source of music videos and pop culture -- has been around for 25 years now. And that amount of time makes for a lot of memories.

So in recognition of the entertainment MTV has offered over the years, Indystar.com, Indiana's #1 local media site, takes a walk down memory lane and counts down 25 best MTV memories. It's fitting that many of the memories include actual music -- although some may say MTV is not really about music anymore, with music videos hard to come by -- so Michael Jackson's 1983 14-minute video Thriller makes the list and so does the 1985 performances of Live Aid, a conglomeration of musicians who sang to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

But many memories are not recollections of music videos -- or even musical performances. They are nostalgic remembrances of other media events -- like a kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears during an award show, the running of the popular Beavis and Butthead show and Remote Control game show, peeks into spring break extravaganzas, and roof-raising reality shows like The Real World and The Osbourne's.

And even one socially-conscious piece that aired to raise awareness of testicular cancer. On May 23, 2000, wacky, stunt-pulling comedian Tom Green let viewers into his private world, in an operating room while he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous testicle and several lymph nodes. Green survived the surgery well -- and he is surviving cancer still today -- and his public handling of a serious disease goes down in MTV history as something truly memorable.