MATTHEW BARNES


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Matthew Barnes in Belize


Matthew J. C. Barnes was born in 1959 and has degrees in zoology, entomology and tropical agriculture from Oxford, London and Reading Universities. He has studied moths for most of his life and has collected throughout Europe; southern, central and eastern Africa; the Indian Ocean islands and the Far East. Apart from Belize, he has also collected In the New World tropics in South America and throughout the Caribbean - where he used to live.

Although his daytime job is teaching biology his first loves are tropical entomology, wildlife and conservation. With this in mind he is constructing a small hotel and field studies centre at Maya Beach, near Placencia, In Belize, to which - money permitting - he hopes to decamp permanently at some stage in the near future.

Most insects are in the tropics and most entomologists are in the temperate zone - by moving permanently to Belize in the near future he hopes to do his bit to rectify this imbalance.
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