Prof Augustine Isichei

Editor

Professor Augustine Onwuegbukiwe Isichei, Editor, The Nigerian Field, from 2012 to date, Ecologist. President, Botanical Society of Nigeria 2011 to 2016, Member, Nigerian National Committee of the UNESCO MAB Programme, Group Leader in the UNDP-GEF Niger Delta Biodiversity Project; Member of 16 Environmental Impact Assessment Panels of the Federal Ministry of Environment; Participated in the Pre-settlement botanical survey of the FCT in 1981. Academic staff at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria 1976 to 2020 and supervised several postgraduates in forest and savanna ecology. Biodiversity conservation, especially Green Economy in Biosphere Reserves (GEBR) continues to be a core interest after retirement from lecturing.