biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| British conservationist. He joined the Nature Conservancy in 1956, becoming its chief scientist (1973–89). His main work is the Nature Conservation Revue (1977), cataloguing the prime examples of habitat in the British Is in need of protection. He was also responsible, through his study of the effects of pesticides on the peregrine falcon, for the restriction and eventual ban on the use of organochlorine insecticides. |
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