Edward Percy Stebbing, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Percy Stebbing

British forester and forest entomologist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1872

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1960

Profession: botanist, entomologist, explorer, ecologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Edward Percy Stebbing FRSE FRGS FZS (4 January 1872 – 21 March 1960) was a pioneering English forester and forest entomologist in India.
He was among the first to warn of desertification and desiccation and wrote on "The encroaching Sahara".
In 1935, he wrote of the "desert whose power is incalculable and whose silent and almost invisible approach must be difficult to estimate." He suggested that this was man-made and this led to a joint Anglo-French forestry mission from December 1936 to February 1937 that toured northern Nigeria and Niger to assess the danger of desertification.