Guy Mountfort
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Guy Mountfort OBE (December 4, 1905 - April 24, 2003) was an English advertising executive, amateur ornithologist and conservationist.
Born in London, Mountfort was the author of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954), with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom.
In 1961 he created the World Wide Fund for Nature (then the World Wildlife Fund) with Victor Stolan, Sir Julian Huxley, Sir Peter Scott and Max Nicholson.
He was awarded OBE in 1970, for services to ornithology.
In 1972 he led the campaign to save the Bengal Tiger, persuading Indira Gandhi to create nine tiger reserves in India, with eight others in Nepal and Bangladesh.
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- Portrait of a Wilderness
- Portrait of a River
- Portrait of a Desert
- The Vansishing Jungle
- The Hawfinch
- Tigers
- So Small a World
- A field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe by Roger Peterson, Guy Mountfort, P.A.D. Hollom. Collins, 1954
- 1965 edition: revised and enlarged in collaboration with I.J. Ferguson-Lees and D.I.M. Wallace
- 1971 impression: ISBN 0 00 212020 8
- 2004 edition: ISBN 978-0007192342
- Back from the Brink - Successes in wildlife conservation Hutchinson (1978) ISBN 0 09 132710 5
- With a foreword by Sir Peter Scott
- Dedicated: "For Anna, Paul, Oliver and Stephen, who one day will know why Grandpa thought the protection of wildlife so important for their future."
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