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DEATH NOTICES

We were greatly saddened by the loss on 8 December 2002 of three practitioners of conservation biology in the heart of the Ituri Forest and Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kambale Sambiili, Karl Ruf, and Jean Nlamba were at the forefront of conservation in the war-torn eastern DRC. Sambiili, Ruf, and Nlamba were traveling from Beni in DRC after discussing okapi conservation and management of the Okapi Reserve with his Excellency Nyamwisi Mbusa. They were killed when their car collided head-on with a bus near Mbarara, Uganda. An assistant in the car was also killed. SCB extends its deepest sympathy to the families and colleagues of the deceased.

Visionary conservation biologist Raymond F. Dasmann, Professor Emeritus of ecology at University of California, Santa Cruz, died 5 November 2002 at 83. The cause of death was pneumonia. Dasmann began working in the nascent field of conservation biology in the 1950s. His work helped identify population growth, pollution, habitat loss, and species eradication as major threats to biological diversity. In the 1960s, Dasmann helped launch the Man and the Biosphere program with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Dasmann was an early advocate of conservation policies that respected indigenous people, and his early call for minimization of human impact on the land helped lay the groundwork for the field of environmental ethics. Dasmann received a Distinguished Service Award from SCB in 1988; a tribute will appear in the April issue of Conservation Biology. Our condolences to his survivors.

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