Hugh Lamprey
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Hugh Lamprey (2 August 1928 - 10 February 1996) was a British ecologist and bush pilot. After travelling on student expeditions Iceland, the Himalayas, and the Canary Islands, he served in Palestine and Egypt as a tank officer. Subsequently he obtained a position in Tanganyika, and in the Game Department in 1953 he designed methods of estimating game densities that are still widely used.[1] He applied these to studies of food sources of Tsetse flies in Kenya.[2]
In 1975 he prepared a United Nations Environment Programme report on desertification in the African Sahel region, in which he concluded that "the desert southern boundary has shifted south" by an average of 90 to 100 km in the preceding 17 years. This statement has been instrumental to the belief that desertification is a great threat to the world and especially Africa.
References[]
- ^ "Obituaries".
- ^ Lamprey, H. F.; Glasgow, J. P.; Lee-Jones, Frances; Weitz, B. (1962). "A Simultaneous Census of the Potential and Actual Food Sources of the Tsetse Fly Glossina swynnertoni Austen". Journal of Animal Ecology. 31 (1): 151–156. doi:10.2307/2336. JSTOR 2336.
- Information about Northern Tanzania, biography
- Fred Pearce, New Scientist vol 175 issue 2351 - 13 July 2002, page 50.
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