Antonio Brack Egg

Q: When did Antonio Brack Egg die?

Antonio Brack Egg died on December 30, 2014.

Q: How old was Antonio Brack Egg when they died?

Antonio Brack Egg was 74 years old at the time of death.

Q: When was Antonio Brack Egg born?

Antonio Brack Egg was born on June 3, 1940.

Antonio José Brack Egg (3 June 1940 – 30 December 2014) was an agronomist engineer, an ecologist, and researcher. He was the first Peruvian Minister of the Environment. He is a national and international authority on issues pertaining to biological diversity and biocommercial development. He died after a brief hospitalization in 2014.

Brack's Andes frog (Phrynopus bracki), a tiny frog occurring in the Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park that Brack help to establish, is named in his honor.

He was recognized with the Barbara D’Achille National Environment Award of Peru in 1996. He was awarded the Esteban Campodónico Prize in 2004 for his work in service to Peruvian society.