MATTHEW BARNES
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Matthew J. C. Barnes, 42, 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.
In the New World tropics he has collected and studied moths in Central and
South America and in Jamaica (where he used to live) and in all of the major
islands of the Eastern Caribbean between Anguilla and Grenada - in many cases
on several occasions.
Although his
daytime job is tutoring in biology in
Oxford, U.K.,
his first love
is 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, Central America,
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 to Belize he hopes
to do his bit to rectify this imbalance.
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