According to Wikipedia, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Fattah Al-Kassas was an Egyptian botanist and conservationist. He was professor emeritus for Botany at the University of Cairo and a specialist in Arid land Ecology. He studied at the University of Cairo, where he received a B.Sc. in 1944 and a M.Sc. in 1947, and at the University of Cambridge . A specialist in the ecology of desert plants, and was among the first to publish on the topic of desertification. Kassas was an advisory member of the United Nations Environment Programme from its beginning, and from 1978 to 1984 president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature . In 1981, he was appointed a member of the Shura Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Egypt. He was a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Science and the world Academy of Art and Science, and member of the Club of Rome. He was a founding member of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development . He received Honorary Doctorate Degree from universities in the Sudan, Sweden, Egypt and USA, and was on the editorial boards of several international journals in fields of ecology and environmental sciences.
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A new assessment of the world status of desertification (1991) (194)
A taxonomic study of the populations of three common species of the genus Orobanche L. (Orobanchaceae) in Egypt. II. Macro- and micromorphology of the seeds and their taxonomic implication. (2000) (3)
Botanical nomenclature today and tomorrow. (2000) (3)
Plant systematics for the 21st century: Proceedings from a symposium held at the Wenner-Gren Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1998. (2000) (3)
