Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |
Born in Victoria in 1954 and
graduated Bachelor of Science (Forestry)
from the Australian National University (ANU) in
1976.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was a
Technical Officer with the CSIRO Division of
Plant Industry, Canberra. He was
concerned with projects funded by the World
Wildlife Fund, Australia, investigating plant
species believed to be extinct or endangered
and is a co-author of Rare or Threatened
Australian Plants.
He was also
involved in identifying and nominating the
most appropriate sites of endangered plant
species for inclusion in the Register of the
National Estate for the Australian Heritage
Commission.
He worked with Lindsay Pryor on an investigation into threatened Eucalypts in Australia.
For most of his later professional life he was an officer with New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), Southern Directorate.
Source: Extracted from: back dust-jacket of 'Extinct and Endangered Plants of Australia' (1984) by Leigh, Boden, Briggs; WWW, Macmillan.
Portrait Photo: 1998, M.Fagg.
Data from 6,188 specimens