Antonio Brack Egg
Antonio Brack Egg | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Died | 30 December 2014 (aged 74) Lima, Peru |
| 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.
He was recognized with the Barbara D’Achille National Environment Award of Peru in 1996. He was awarded the Esteban Campodónico Prize in 2004 for his work in service to Peruvian society.