Antonio Brack Egg | |
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![]() 2010 | |
1st Minister of the Environment of Peru | |
In office 16 May 2008 – 28 July 2011 | |
President | Alan García Pérez |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Ricardo Giesecke |
Personal details | |
Born | Oxapampa, Peru | 3 June 1940
Died | 30 December 2014 Lima, Peru | (aged 74)
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | Salesian Normal School of Chosica University of Würzburg |
Antonio José Brack Egg (3 June 1940 – 30 December 2014) was an agronomist engineer, an ecologist, and researcher. He was the first Peruvian Minister of the Environment. [1] He is a national and international authority on issues pertaining to biological diversity and biocommercial development. He died after a brief hospitalization in 2014. [2] [3]
Brack's Andes frog ( Phrynopus bracki), a tiny frog occurring in the Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park that Brack help to establish, is named in his honor. [4] [5]
Antonio Brack Egg | |
---|---|
![]() 2010 | |
1st Minister of the Environment of Peru | |
In office 16 May 2008 – 28 July 2011 | |
President | Alan García Pérez |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Ricardo Giesecke |
Personal details | |
Born | Oxapampa, Peru | 3 June 1940
Died | 30 December 2014 Lima, Peru | (aged 74)
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | Salesian Normal School of Chosica University of Würzburg |
Antonio José Brack Egg (3 June 1940 – 30 December 2014) was an agronomist engineer, an ecologist, and researcher. He was the first Peruvian Minister of the Environment. [1] He is a national and international authority on issues pertaining to biological diversity and biocommercial development. He died after a brief hospitalization in 2014. [2] [3]
Brack's Andes frog ( Phrynopus bracki), a tiny frog occurring in the Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park that Brack help to establish, is named in his honor. [4] [5]