Roy E. Gereau

Roy E. Gereau is Tanzania Program Director at the Missouri Botanical Garden and has been working in East Africa for 35 years. His activities include discovery and description of new species, training and capacity building of botanists and foresters, and biodiversity inventory of Tanzania’s protected area network. His involvement in this book stems from the desire to assure the survival of East Africa’s native biodiversity and its environment for the benefit of nature and humankind.