Matthew Richardson (author)


Matthew Charles Richardson is a Canadian author and primatologist, best-known for his expertise on extinct and endangered species.

Biography

Matthew Richardson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario on January 16, 1966, but was raised in the town of Markham, north of Toronto. His early unpublished works include a biography of Gerald Durrell and the massive, four-volume "Living Primates" series that would later be adapted into other works. In 2001 he published . For much of the next decade he worked as a primatologist / taxonomist for the U.S.-based NGO Conservation International, co-authoring various books and academic papers. Notable among these were Lemurs of Madagascar and the primate volume to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series. He also lived and worked, for a time, at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, helped to catalog the Royal Ontario Museum's primatology collection, gave lectures, and has served as an active member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group, and the IUCN Conservation Planning Specialist Group.
He is currently working on "Threatened and Recently-Extinct Vertebrates of the World: A Biogeographic Approach".

Personal life

Matthew is single and lives near the town of La Conception, in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec.

Selected bibliography