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For Brian Huntley (1944– ), South African biodiversity expert and professor of botany at the University of Cape Town. He studied at the universities of Natal, Pretoria and the Orange Free State, obtaining an MSc for research on Marion Island. He spent several years with the Transvaal Department of Nature Conservation and four years in Angola. In the 1970s he joined the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and coordinated its savanna ecosystem project and later all national ecosystem projects. In 1989 he became director of the National Botanical Institute (later, the South African National Biodiversity Institute), and was responsible for eight national botanical gardens, three research centres, four major bio-regional programmes and more than 100 school-based environmental greening projects.