Robert Story (onye na-ahụ maka ihe ọkụkụ)

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Akụkọ Robert (Bob) OAM (19 Ọgọst 1913 Fort Beaufort – 20 Febụwarị 1999 Australia) bụ ọkachamara n'ihe gbasara osisi na gburugburu ebe obibi na South Africa. Nna ya, onye nwụrụ n'afọ 1925, bụ onye njikwa ugbo nke gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Edinburgh ma nweta asambodo na ọrụ ugbo.

Mgbe ọ nọrọ afọ 1926-30 na Grey High School na Port Elizabeth, Robert Story gara Mahadum Rhodes site na afọ 1931-33 ebe o nwetara akara ugo mmụta B.Sc., mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ debanyere aha na Mahadum Witwatersrand site na afọ 1934-35 ebe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na M.Sc. ma mesịa nye ya akara ugo mmụta D.Sc. Oge mbụ ọ ga-arụ ọrụ bụ na Leeuwkuil Pasture Research Station dị nso na Vereeniging na 1936. N'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, ọ gara ọrụ na Madagascar, North Africa na Italy. Mgbe Agha ahụ gwụchara na 1945, e zigara ya na Ngalaba Nnyocha Osisi nke Ngalaba Osisi ma tinye ya n'ọrụ na Grahamstown. N'ebe a, o mere nnyocha osisi nke Keiskammahoek District ma bipụta ya dị ka 'Nyocha Osisi nke South Africa Memoir Nke 27' na 1952.  N'otu afọ ahụ, ọ kwagara Pretoria dị ka onye na-ahụ maka ngalaba nyocha osisi.

He accompanied the Harvard-Smithsonian-Peabody expedition to Botswana and South-West Africa in 1955, revisiting the region in 1956 and 1958 and travelling through the Kaokoveld to the Kunene River. As a result of these trips he published 'Some Plants Used by the Bushmen in Obtaining Food and Water' in 1958 as 'Botanical Survey of South Africa Memoir No. 30'.

Robert Story with his wife Sybil and daughters emigrated to Australia in July 1959 where he took up a position in Canberra with the Land Use Research Division of CSIRO as ecologist and botanist. He was appalled at the environmental damage that was being done in the Hunter Valley, where eucalypts were felled and left to rot. During 1969-70 he was posted to Patagonia on an environmental training mission, a trip which in his opinion was a waste of time. He was convinced that rampant population growth lay at the root of most environmental problems. He, Nancy Burbidge, Alec Baillie Costin and a few other botanists were instrumental in the 1960 founding of the National Parks Association of the Australian Capital Territory, and was one of the first Presidents of the NPA in the 1960s, as well as being a founding member of the Kosciuszko Huts Association and its President during the years 1973-76. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1989 for "service to conservation and national parks".

Ihe atụ ya dị ihe dị ka 5000, a chịkọtakwara ya na South Africa, Namibia na Botswana. A na-echeta ya na Acacia storyi Tindale na Paenula storyi Orchard.

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