Guy Mountfort

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Guy Reginald Mountfort OBE (born December 4, 1905 in London , England , † April 24, 2003 in Bournemouth , England) was an English advertiser , amateur ornithologist , conservationist and environmentalist .

Life

After leaving school at 16, Mountfort sold typewriters and then worked in advertising. During World War II he was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army . He then worked at Procter & Gamble and moved to the international advertising agency Mather & Crowther, where he was branch manager in London until his retirement in 1966.

An expert birders from childhood was Mountfort the co-author of The Birds of Europe - A Handbook for ornithologists and nature lovers of all in Europe living birds (1954), with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps of Philip Hollom . In 1961 he founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) together with Victor Stolan , Sir Julian Huxley , Sir Peter Scott and Max Nicholson . For his services to ornithology, he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970.

In 1972 he led the campaign to save the Bengal tiger , persuading Indira Gandhi to designate nine tiger reserves in India , in addition to eight others in Nepal and Bangladesh . Guy Mountfort was the Vice President of WWF in the UK until his death.

He was married to Joan, nee Hartley Pink, since 1931, with whom he had two daughters.

Books

  • The Hawfinch , New Naturalist Monograph No.15, Collins, London 1957
  • Portrait of a Wilderness: The story of the Coto Doñana Expeditions , Hutchinson, London 1952, ISBN 0-7153-4284-3
  • Portrait of a River: the wildlife of the Danube from the Black Sea to Budapest , Hutchinson, London 1962, ISBN 0-7153-4284-3
  • Portrait of a Desert: the story of an expedition to Jordan , Collins, London 1968
  • The Vanishing Jungle: the story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan Collins, London 1969
  • Tigers , Newton Abbott, 1973, ISBN 0-7153-6283-6
  • So Small a World Hutchinson, London, 1974, ISBN 0-09-120590-5
  • Back from the Brink - Successes in wildlife conservation , Hutchinson, London 1978, ISBN 0-09-132710-5
  • Saving the Tiger Ed. Michael Joseph, London 1981, ISBN 0-7181-1991-6
  • Wild India - The Wildlife and Landscapes of India , Guy Mountfort together with Hashim Tyabji, Gerald Cubitt, New Holland Publishers 2007, ISBN 978-1-84537-923-0
  • A field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe Guy Mountfort together with Roger Tory Peterson, Hollom, William Collins, Collins, London 1954

German edition:

  • The birds of Europe - A pocket book for ornithologists and nature lovers about all birds living in Europe

Guy Mountfort together with Roger Tory Peterson, Philip AD Hollom, Günther Niethammer, Parey, 1956

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personal data
SURNAME Mountfort, Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mountfort, Guy Reginald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British advertiser, amateur ornithologist, conservationist and environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2003
Place of death Bournemouth