John MacKinnon

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John Ramsay MacKinnon (born January 22, 1947 in Leeds ) is a British zoologist and conservationist . His main research interests are ecology , ornithology and mammalogy .

Life

MacKinnon began his career in 1965 with insect and chimpanzee studies at Jane Goodall and Hugo van Lawick's camp in Gombe . After receiving his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts MacKinnon 1973 with the thesis The behavior and ecology of the orangutan, pongo pygmaeus, with relation to the other apes for Ph.D. PhD from the University of Oxford . For this he studied wild orangutans in Sumatra and Sabah between June 1968 and November 1971 under the direction of Nikolaas Tinbergen and Desmond Morris . He did field work on primates , insects and birds in Africa and Asia for over 20 years and he was involved in the creation of nature reserves. MacKinnon developed databases with the help of geographic information systems (GIS), including for projects of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). From 1977 to 1979 he was project manager at WWF . From 1980 to 1982 he was a consultant and in 1983 a project manager at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). From 1983 to 1986 he was a representative and advisor to the WWF and the IUCN in Indonesia. From 1986 to 1992 he was Senior Conservation Advisor to WWF in Indonesia. In 1992 he founded the Asian Bureau for Conservation in Hong Kong .

MacKinnon drew up action plans for the WWF and the IUCN on the species survival plans of the giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ) and the kouprey ( Bos sauveli ) and he designed system plans for protected areas in Indonesia, Bhutan , Vietnam and China.

He was one of the first to describe three artifacts from Vietnam , including the Annam muntjac ( Muntiacus truongsonensis ), the giant muntjac ( Muntiacus vuquangensis ) and the saola ( Pseudoryx nghetinhensis ).

MacKinnon is a member of the Zoological Society of London , Fauna & Flora International (formerly Fauna Preservation Society), the Malaysian Nature Society and the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

In 1998 MacKinnon received the Order of the Golden Ark from Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands .

In 1974 MacKinnon took part in the British documentary series The World About Us by David Attenborough .

Fonts

In 1993, MacKinnon, in collaboration with Karen Phillipps, published the work A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali: The Greater Sunda Islands , which, with 820 described species, was for a long time the most comprehensive, illustrated bird guide of Indonesia's avifauna and in 2016 by the book Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea by James A. Eaton , Frank E. Rheindt , Bas van Balen and Nick W. Brickle, in which 1417 species are described. Other books published by MacKinnon are Animals of Asia: The ecology of the Oriental region (1974), In Search of the Red Ape (1974, German: In search of the red monkey ), Time-Life: Borneo (1975, German: Die Wilderness der Welt: Borneo ), The Ape within us (1978), Preliminary Management Plan for Mandor Nature Reserve, West Kalimantan (1981), Managing Protected Areas in the Tropics (1986), Field Guide to the Birds of Java and Bali ( 1988), A Biodiversity review of China (1996), Wild China (1996), Review of the protected areas system in the Indo-Malayan realm (1997), A Field Guide to the Birds of China (2000) and Birds of China ( 2017). In 2008 he wrote the section on cloven-hoofed animals (Artiodactyla) in the factory A Guide to the Mammals of China by Andrew T. Smith .

literature

  • Nicholas Polunin: World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation , St. Martin's Press New York, 1997. ISBN 0-312-17448-9 , pp. 197-198

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MacKinnon et al .: National conservation management plan for the giant panda and its habitat: Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces, the People's Republic of China: joint report Hong Kong: Chinese Ministry of Forestry and World Wide Fund for Nature, 1989.
  2. ^ John Ramsay MacKinnon, Võ Quý, SN Stuart: The kouprey: an action plan for its conservation IUCN / SSC Action Plans for the Conservation of Biological Diversity, IUCN Gland, Switzerland, 1989
personal data
SURNAME MacKinnon, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacKinnon, John Ramsay (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , Yorkshire and the Humber , United Kingdom