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Books Lemurs of Madagascar, Getting Started with Beag, Getting Started with Rasp, The Queer Limit of Black Me, Deeds of Heroes: The Story | ||
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Matthew Richardson (born 1966) is a Canadian author and conservationist.
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In 2001 he published The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William. For much of the next decade he worked as a primatologist / taxonomist for the U.S.-based NGO Conservation International, co-authoring various books and academic papers. Notable among these were Lemurs of Madagascar (book) and the massive primate volume to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series (for which he also produced all the maps). He also lived and worked, for a time, at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands. In addition to his writing and editing activities he consulted with scientists the world over on questions of conservation and taxonomy, helped to catalog the Royal Ontario Museum's primatology collection, gave lectures, and served as an active member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group.
He is currently working on "The Red List: A Global Biogeographic Survey of Threatened and Recently-Extinct Vertebrates."