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Antonio Brack Egg
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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]
Quick Facts 1st Minister of the Environment of Peru, President ...
Antonio Brack Egg | |
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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 |
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Born | (1940-06-03)3 June 1940 Oxapampa, Peru |
Died | 30 December 2014(2014-12-30) (aged 74) Lima, Peru |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | Salesian Normal School of Chosica University of Würzburg |
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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]