Antonio Brack Egg
Antonio Brack Egg | |
|---|---|
2010 | |
| 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 Oxapampa, Peru |
| Died | 30 December 2014 (aged 74) Lima, Peru |
| Political 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. He is a national and international authority on issues pertaining to biological diversity and biocommercial development. He died after a brief hospitalization in 2014.
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.