Antonio Brack Egg Explained

Antonio Brack Egg
Office:1st Minister of the Environment of Peru
President:Alan García Pérez
Term Start:16 May 2008
Term End:28 July 2011
Predecessor:Office created
Successor:Ricardo Giesecke
Birth Date:3 June 1940
Birth Place:Oxapampa, Peru
Death Place:Lima, Peru
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.

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  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070612234450/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-p/peru.html CIA World Leaders
  2. Web site: Antonio Brack - exministro del Ambiente - falleció a los 74 años FOTOS LaRepublica.pe . www.larepublica.pe . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141230212642/http://www.larepublica.pe/30-12-2014/fallecio-antonio-brack-el-primer-ministro-del-ambiente . 2014-12-30.
  3. Web site: In Memoriam Dr Antonio Brack Egg . 2015-01-31 . 2015-04-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150418154525/https://fzs.org/en/news/memoriam-dr-antonio-brack-egg/ . dead .