Toomas Frey

{{Short description|Estonian scientist (1937–2020)}}

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Toomas Frey (13 December 1937 – 23 September 2020) was an Estonian ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist.Priist Kask (16 June 2010). "[http://www.loodusajakiri.ee/eesti_mets/uudised58.html Teenekas ökoloog Toomas Frey 70]" (in Estonian), Eesti mets. Retrieved 31 December 2010.

Frey was born in Põltsamaa. He was also a political leader, with the Estonian Green Movement. When he was named Minister of the Environment in 1990, it was the first time a member of a green political organisation reached a national position in any European government.Wolfgang Rudig (April 2002). "Between Ecotopia and disillusionment: Green parties in European government", Environment 44 (3): 20–33.