Antonio Brack Egg
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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 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 June 1940 |
| Died | 30 December 2014 (aged 74) 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.[4][5]
He was recognized with the Barbara D’Achille National Environment Award of Peru in 1996.[2] He was awarded the Esteban Campodónico Prize in 2004 for his work in service to Peruvian society.[6]
