Chris Merkord Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Geoffrey Matthews. Source: The Telegraph Geoffrey Matthews, who has died aged 89, was Director of Research and Conservation at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) for more than three decades, and a founding father of the Ramsar Convention, the first international agreement on the conservation of natural habitats.Sir Peter Scott founded WWT, at Slimbridge, the Gloucestershire wetland reserve, in 1946, and nine years later, to establish it as an international centre of research and conservation , recruited Matthews, an authority on bird navigation.Matthews dedicated the next 33 years of his life to WWT, building a team of scientists which developed waterfowl biology using the Slimbridge collection of birds and observing ducks, geese and swans in the wild.View the full article from the Telegraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Merkord Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Stroud News and Journal Zoologist and conservationist Professor Geoffrey Matthews dies aged 89 Stroud News and Journal Prof Matthews, who was director of research for many years at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, died peacefully on Monday, January 21 at his home in Minchinhampton where he had lived with his wife Mary for nearly 30 years. A pioneer of ... View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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