Co-author, A Manifesto for Earth; Senior author, Canada's Biodiversity 1995; Anthology of Ecospheric Earth-Ethics; Lanark, Ontario, CAN

Systematics, Evolution, Pollination ecology

Ted Mosquin has a B.Sc.(Hons.) in Botany (U. of Manitoba 1956), and a Ph.D. in Systematics & Evolution (UCLA 1961). He has taught at a number of universities, and for 12 years was a research scientist with Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. In 1977 he organized and edited the proceedings of a symposium on Canada's Threatened Species and Habitats. He served as the first Editor of Nature Canada (1971-76) and as volunteer Editor of The Canadian Field-Naturalist.(1967-71). In 1988, he helped write the book: Legacy: A Natural History of Ontario, of which he is Associate Editor. He is one (of four) authors of On the Brink: Endangered Species in Canada, published in 1989. He is the principal author of the Canada Country Study of Biodiversity: Canada's Biodiversity: the Variety of Life, its Status, Economic Benefits, Conservation Costs, and Unmet Needs a UNEP project and published in 1995 by the Canadian Museum of Nature. He is the author of two chapters in the book: Biodiversity in Canada, Ecology, Ideas and Action, edited by Stephen Bocking of Trent University and published by Broadview Press, Peterborough in 2000. The Chapter titles were: Status and Trends in Canadian Biodiversity, and The Roles of Biodiversity in Creating and Maintaining the Ecosphere. He has had an active consulting career through Mosquin Bio-Information Limited, and Ecospherics International Inc. He is the author of over 100 scientific and popular articles in systematics, ecology and natural history.

Ted Mosquin, Musician Extraordinaire and Rosin Enthusist

Between the late 1960s to the present he has served as President of a number of local, regional and national Canadian environmental organizations. He was the first President and Executive Director of The Canadian Nature Federation (in 1971), and in the late'80s served as National President of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society. From 1991 to 1995 Ted was a member of the Canadian government's Biodiversity Convention Advisory Group (BCAG) which helped draft the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity and advised with the preparation of the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, published in 1995 by Environment Canada. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Valley Conservation Foundation and first President and one of the founders (2003) of the Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust Conservancy.

Ted has been honoured by a number of awards, including the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for conservation work by the government of Canada.

Special thanks to Dr. Mosquin for permission to reprint the above biographical excerpt, which appears online at http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/aboutauthors.html.