Rennie Montague Bere

Rennie Montague Bere ( born November 28, 1907 in Bere Regis, Dorset, † March 23, 1991 in Plymouth ) was a British mountaineer, naturalist and conservationist.

Life and work

Bere was the son of a pastor. After leaving school at Marlborough College, he wrote in 1926 to Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1930 he was commissioned by the British Colonial Service to Uganda and worked as a District Commissioner and later as Provincial Commissioner for the northern province. During his thirty -year stay in Uganda Bere made ​​outstanding contributions as a mountaineer and in the field of mountain exploration, especially in the Rwenzori Mountains. Bere Island researched several mountains, the Imatong Mountains on the border with Sudan and the Virunga volcanoes. In 1955 he became Director and Chief Game Warden of the Uganda National Parks. In 1960 he moved with his wife Anne Maree, whom he married in Uganda in 1936, to West Cottage near Bude Haven, Cornwall.

Bere published several dozen books, including The Way to the Mountains of the Moon (1966 ), Antelopes (1970), The Nature Of Cornwall (1982) and the autobiography A Cuckoo's Parting Cry: a personal account of life and work in Uganda in between 1930 and 1960 ( 1990).

Honors and Memberships

1928 Bere member of the Alpine Club. In 1957 he became a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Works (selection)

  • The Wild Mammals of Uganda and Neighbouring Regions of East Africa, 1961
  • The Way to the Mountains of the Moon, 1966
  • Wild Animals in an African National Park, 1966
  • The African Elephant, 1966 ( German: The World of Animals: The African elephant, translated by Odo Walther, 1976)
  • Birds in an African National Park, 1969
  • Antelopes ( German: The World of Animals: Antelope, translation of Theodor Haltenorth ), 1970
  • Wildlife in Cornwall: a naturalist 's view of the southwestern peninsula, 1970
  • Crocodile 's Eggs for Supper, and other Animal Tales from Northern Uganda, 1973
  • Mammals of East and Central Africa, 1975
  • The Story of Bude Haven, 1977
  • The Book of Bude and Stratton, 1980
  • The Nature of Cornwall: the wildlife and ecology of the county, 1982
  • A Cuckoo's Parting Cry: a personal account of life and work in between Uganda in 1930 and 1960, 1990
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