Darrell John Kitchener

Darrell John Kitchener (born June 9, 1943 in Victoria , Australia ) is an Australian zoologist . His research focus is mammalogy .

Life

In 1966 he received a Bachelor of Science degree in botany and zoology from the University of Tasmania . In 1967 he graduated from the University of Tasmania in Zoology. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia. PhD. From 1972 to 1994 he was assistant director of the vertebrate division at the Western Australian Museum . Since 1997 he has lived and worked as an independent environmental consultant in Jakarta , Indonesia . From 1998 to January 1999 he was the coordinator for the western region of WWF Indonesia. In November 1998, he became head of Sunda - Bioregion of WWF Indonesia. From June 1999 to May 2000 he worked as a park and planning consultant for the Indonesia program of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). From May 2000 to January 2002 he was director of The Nature Conservancy's terrestrial conservation program in Indonesia. From January 2002 to July 2002 he was a planning consultant for the Kalimantan Timur ecoregion at The Nature Conservancy.

With the Indonesian sections of WWF and TNC, Kitchener led seven major international programs involving six bilateral agencies. He did field work in Nusa Tenggara and Maluku , East Timor , southwest China , the Philippines and Sri Lanka .

His fields of activity include eco-regional conservation planning, the assessment of biodiversity in protected areas, adaptive management in protected areas, the analysis of interest groups, integrated conservation and development programs, education and publicity programs, environmental auditing, environmental protection, environmental hazard analysis, village protection agreements, including the mapping of land use areas, capacity building within non-governmental organizations and the creation of suitable activation environments.

Kitchener was a research biologist at the Western Australian Museum for 28 years. During this time he published more than 130 scientific articles in specialist journals, mostly as a senior author. These include work on nature conservation design, nature conservation management, rapid ecological assessment, the assessment of biological diversity, ecophysiology, island biogeography, mammal reproduction, lizard and bird ecology and the systematics of mammals. He described over 55 new Indonesian and Australian mammal species and subspecies from the groups of marsupials, rodents and bats. This makes him one of the most ardent first descriptors of new mammal taxa from Indonesia and Australia in the second half of the 20th century.

Dedication names

In 1998 the Skinkart Emoia kitcheneri was named after Darrell John Kitchener. In 2014 he was honored in the species epithet of the bat species Mormopterus kitcheneri .

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae (as of 2003)