Eddie Brewer

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Edward Frank Brewer , mostly just Eddie Brewer OBE (born October 19, 1919 ( Wales ), † April 19, 2003 ) was a British conservationist and nature conservation director in the West African state of Gambia .

Life

Eddie Brewer and his family came to The Gambia from Wales in 1957 , when the country was still a British colony, to work as a forest clerk.

As a forest official in the Gambia, which became independent in 1965, he and his daughter discovered a piece of unspoiled nature in 1967. As a result of his efforts, this gallery forest was protected a year later as the first nature reserve in Gambia with the name Abuko Nature Reserve .

Later, in 1976, Brewer was the first conservation director of the Gambian Conservation Division Wildlife Conservation Department in Abuko . Until his retirement at the end of 1992, Brewer had made the greatest contribution to the preservation of nature in The Gambia. He was the first in Gambia to consistently enforce compliance with the Washington Convention on Species Conservation (CITES).

Almamy Camara was his successor as nature conservation director. In 1995 Brewer and his partner Gilla Hanauer retired to their home in Gwynedd in northwest Wales. Eddie Brewer died on April 19, 2003 at the age of 83.

Daughter Stella Marsden

His daughter Stella Margaret Brewer (later Stella Marsden ) went to school in the UK . She spent most of her vacation time with her father. In 1969, just before going to university, Stella fell in love with chimpanzees , and the Abuko Nature Reserve established a rearing facility for the primates, some of which were illegally trafficked. In 1974 she founded the chimpanzee rehabilitation project “ Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project ” (CRP) in the River Gambia National Park , where he supported her. In 2006, like Eddie Brewer, Stella received the OBE ( Officer of the British Empire ) award from Queen Elizabeth II after receiving an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine (Dr. med. Vet. Hc) from the University of Glasgow . Stella also founded the Gambia horse and donkey trust together with her sister Heather Armstrong in November 2002.

Works (Stella Marsden)

  • Stella Brewer: The Monkey School. New ways of wildlife research . Moewig, Munich [i. e. Rastatt] 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3117-8
  • Stella Brewer, Jane Goodall: The Forest Dwellers . HarperCollins Publishers 1979, ISBN 0-00-635335-5
  • Stella Brewer: The chimps of Mt. Asserik . Knopf / Random House 1978, ISBN 0-394-49449-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosel Jahn: Gambia. Travel guide with regional studies; with a travel atlas . Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4
  2. ↑ Michael Tomkinson: Gambia, a tourist guide . Tomkinson, London [u. a.] 1983, ISBN 0-905500-13-X
  3. ↑ The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust ( Memento of the original dated November 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gambia Tourist Support @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gambiatouristsupport.com
  4. ↑ In Memory of a Fallen Defender of Wildlife ( PDF document )
  5. ↑ Global Whale Supporter Eddie Brewer ( February 5, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive ) Cetacean Society International, Inc
  6. ^ Stella Brewer bags prestigious award ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) The Daily Observer, December 16, 2005
  7. ↑ panafricanprimates.org ( Memento from March 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Gambia Chimpanzee expert Marsden earns OBE from Queen Elizabeth
  8. ^ The Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Letter from Heather Armstrong
personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brewer, Edward Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conservationist in Gambia
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wales
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2003
Place of death Gwynedd