Hugh Lamprey

Template:Use dmy dates Template:More footnotes needed Hugh Lamprey (2 August 1928 – 10 February 1996) was a British ecologist and bush pilot. After travelling on student expeditions to Iceland, the Himalayas, and the Canary Islands, he served in Palestine and Egypt as a tank officer. Subsequently he obtained a position in Tanganyika, and in the Game Department in 1953, he designed methods of estimating game densities that are still widely used.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He applied these to studies of food sources of Tsetse flies (specifically Glossina swynnertoni) in Kenya.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Lamprey was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1975 he prepared a United Nations Environment Programme report on desertification in the African Sahel region, in which he concluded that "the desert southern boundary has shifted south" by an average of Template:Convert in the preceding 17 years. This statement has been instrumental to the belief that desertification is a great threat to the world and especially Africa.Template:Citation needed