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Peter Wharton
Curator, David C. Lam Asian Garden
Biography
Peter graduated with a forestry degree from the University of North Wales, Bangor, U.K. in 1973, before training as an arborist at the Merrist Wood Agricultural College, Guildford, Surrey, U.K. He emigrated to Canada in 1975 and has spent 30 years working at UBC. Peter has led or participated in nine field expeditions to China, South Korea and northern Vietnam. Today, his prime focus is the conservation of the uniquely bio-diverse forests of southern Yunnan and border areas of Vietnam and Burma. Peter is married with three children and lives in south Surrey, B.C.
Contact
Email:
Phone: +1-604-822-5497
Fax: +1-604-822-2016
Room 106, Campbell Building
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
6804 SW Marine Drive
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
V6T 1Z4
