Antonio Brack Egg


Antonio José Brack Egg 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, a tiny frog occurring in the Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park that Brack help to establish, is named in his honor.