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Ian Redmond

British biologist

Summary

British biologist

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nameIan Redmond
honorific_suffixOBE FZS FLS
birth_nameIan Michael Redmond
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birth_placeMalaysia
death_date
alma_materKeele University
occupation{{Plain list
known_forWork with gorillas and elephants
  • Field biologist
  • Conservationist

Ian Michael Redmond OBE FZS FLS (born 11 April 1954) is a tropical field biologist and conservationist. Renowned for his work with mountain gorillas and elephants, Redmond has been involved in more than 50 documentaries on the subject for, among others, the BBC, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. Redmond was also involved in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist, spending some time with Sigourney Weaver so she could better understand her character.

As a junior researcher working with Dian Fossey, he was involved in the filming of David Attenborough's famous encounter with a group of mountain gorillas in her sanctuary in Rwanda. He recalled the event in a BBC tribute programme marking Attenborough's 90th birthday.

When Dian's favourite gorilla Digit was killed in 1978, it was Ian who found the body. He subsequently became chairman and trustee of The Gorilla Organization (originally known as the Digit Fund, later the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, then Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Europe), and took part in multiple Great Gorilla Run fundraising events for this charity, walking 8 km on his knuckles (as gorillas do).

Similarly to Dian's Digit Fund, Ian set up the African Elephant Fund after he discovered the body of Charles, an underground elephant he had named. The African Ele-Fund was known for the 1989 Elefriends campaign to ban the ivory trade.

He was Ambassador for the 2009 United Nations 'Year of the Gorilla',, from 2020-2024 was Ambassador for the UN's Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals., and is currently Ambassador for Virtual Ecotourism.

He has acted as consultant/advisor to the Born Free Foundation, International Fund for Animal Welfare, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and Orangutan Foundation International.

He established (and chairs) the Ape Alliance, and previously founded the UK Rhino Group (a coalition of 26 conservation organizations which staged a 'Rhino May Day' on 8 May 1999).

He also helped launch the UNEP/UNESCO Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) in 2001 and was its Chief Consultant and Envoy until 2012. More recently he co-founded Rebalance Earth, a capital investment manager treating nature as investible infrastructure.

Early life and family

Redmond was born in Malaysia, moving to Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England aged five to live with his mother. It was in Beverley where his love of animals led to his becoming a member of the Beverley and Hull Naturalist Society. Redmond attended Keele University, studying Biology and Psychology.

Redmond is married with twin sons, Matthew and Benjamin. He has two brothers, Tom, a French horn player, and Timothy, a conductor.

Awards and honours

His work on behalf of animals was recognized in 1996 with the presentation of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Humane Achievement Award, at a ceremony in Hollywood.

He was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006.

In 2011, he was awarded an honorary degree from Oxford Brookes University for his conservation work.

In 2013 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, and also the IFAW Animal Action Award for Conservation.

Publications

  • The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives (with an introduction by Jane Goodall; also released as Primates of the World)
  • Gorilla (Eyewitness Books)
  • Elephant (Eyewitness Books)
  • Gorilla, Monkey & Ape (Eyewitness Books)
  • Gorillas (Wildlife at Risk)
  • Elephants (Wildlife at Risk)
  • Digit and the Gorillas of Rwanda
  • Great Apes
  • The Elephant Book
  • The Elephant in the Bush
  • The World of Elephants
  • Sauvons Les Éléphants
  • Gorilas
  • Gorilas (Enciclopédia Visual #38)
  • Elephants Underground & Mountain Gorillas (ASIN B01MYST4VR), pub. Audubon Naturalist Society & Friends of the Zoo & Smithsonian

References

References

  1. ‘REDMOND, Ian Michael’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U2000158, accessed 11 May 2013]
  2. "Motivational Speakers | Business Speakers | After Dinner Speakers | Gordon Poole Agency Ltd". Gordonpoole.com.
  3. (8 May 2016). "Attenborough at 90".
  4. (13 October 2018). "Introducing the Gorilla Organization". On the Hill, the Primrose Hill Magazine.
  5. (6 September 2009). "UN Gorilla Ambassador for Charity marathon". The New Times.
  6. (26 August 2017). "Stroud gorilla expert to do eight kilometre run on knuckles". Stroud News and Journal.
  7. (6 February 2021). "Ian Redmond talks to Ethical Bucket List".
  8. "Legends and Legacies of Conservation in Africa".
  9. "Migratory Species Ambassador Programme (2006 - 2024) [Archive] {{!}} Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals".
  10. "For the Day of the Elephants, a Crash Course in Conservation". National Geographic Society Newsroom.
  11. (11 Jan 2008). "Campaigns Dept". Born Free Foundation.
  12. (26 June 2006). "'Who'd have thought they'd give a gong to a bloke who still prefers to wear shorts and hang out with gorillas?' - Features - Yorkshire Post". Yorkshire Post.
  13. (2006-06-22). "Ian Redmond Receives OBE". Orangutan.org.uk.
  14. "A Conversation With Ian Redmond OBE for Encountering the Animal – O N C A".
  15. (25 October 2013). "Awards galore…".
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