Hugh Lamprey

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Hugh Lamprey (2 August 1928 - 10 February 1996) was a British ecologist and bush pilot. After travelling on student expeditions to Iceland, the Himalayas, and the Canary Islands, he served in Palestine and Egypt as a tank officer. Subsequently he obtained a position in Tanganyika, and in the Game Department in 1953, he designed methods of estimating game densities that are still widely used.{{cite web|url = https://www.tzaffairs.org/1996/05/obituaries-18/|title=Obituaries|date=May 1996 }} He applied these to studies of food sources of Tsetse flies (specifically Glossina swynnertoni) in Kenya.{{cite journal|doi= 10.2307/2336|jstor= 2336|title= A Simultaneous Census of the Potential and Actual Food Sources of the Tsetse Fly Glossina swynnertoni Austen|last1= Lamprey|first1= H. F.|last2= Glasgow|first2= J. P.|last3= Lee-Jones|first3= Frances|last4= Weitz|first4= B.|journal= Journal of Animal Ecology|year= 1962|volume= 31|issue= 1|pages= 151–156|bibcode= 1962JAnEc..31..151L}}

In 1975 he prepared a United Nations Environment Programme report on desertification in the African Sahel region, in which he concluded that "the desert southern boundary has shifted south" by an average of {{convert|90 to 100|km|mi|0}} in the preceding 17 years. This statement has been instrumental to the belief that desertification is a great threat to the world and especially Africa.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}