Johnathan Chukwuemeka OKAFOR

Forest Conservator

B.Sc, Ph.D, forest conservator, born October 22, 1934, Onitsha, Anambra State; married Patience Ebelechukwu Odunukwe 1963, three sons, one daughter; EDUCATION: Central School, Onitsha, 1940-48, Merchants of Light Secondary School, 1949-53, School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1954-55, Dundee Technical College, Scotland, 1958-59, Aberdeen University, 1959-62, Oxford University, 1964-65, University of Ibadan, 1975-81; CAREER: Appointed Forest Assistant, Forest Research, Ibadan, 1954-58; Lecturer, School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1962-63; Research Officer in- Charge Taxonomy and Forest Herbarium, 1962-66; Senior Research Officer, School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1966-75; Conservator of Forest, Forestry Commission, Enugu, 1975- 77: Assistant Chief Conservator of Forests, 1978-80; Deputy Chief Conservator of Forest (in charge of Forestry Developments and Investigation Branch), 1980-84; Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests, Forestry Commission Headquarters, Enugu, 1984-56; appointed Chief Conservator of Forests, Forestry Commission Headquarters, 1986; Part-time Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, since 1971; fellow, Linnean Society of London, 1965: member, Advisory Board, International Tree Crop Journal, UK, since 1950; member, International Horticultural Society,…