{"id":17652,"date":"2017-03-27T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17652"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:52:44","slug":"lawan-bukar","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/lawan-bukar\/","title":{"rendered":"LAWAN, Bukar"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc. (Agriculture), ad ministrator, born July 4, 1951, Marguba, Borno State; married Saadatu Kilishi, four sons, one daughter; Education: Benisheikh Primary School, 1958-64; Government Col lege, Keffi, 1965-69; Samaru School ofAg riculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971; Career: Appointed Livestock Ser vices Training Centre (now College ofAgri culture and Animal Sciences), Kaduna, 1972; New Mexico University, Las Crues, U.S.A,&#8217; 1975-78; College of African Wildlife Man agement (CAWM), Mweka, Tranzania, 1980-81; appointed Range Management Assistant, Ministry of Natural Resources, North-Eastern State, 1970; National Youth Service, Ministry ofAnimal Health and For est Resources, Kaduna State; promoted Ecologist II, Borno State Ministry ofAgri culture and Natural Resources, 1979; pro moted Ecologist I, 1980; senior Ecologist, 1982; Principal Ecologist, 1985; ChiefAg ricultural Planning Officer, Imo State, 1985; Director of Forestry and Wildlife, 1989; ap pointed Head of Afforestation Programme Coordinating Unit (APCU), by Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 1990; Director and Chief Executive of National Parks, 1991; Granted fellowship, Univer sity of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom, 1983; Graduate member, Institute of Envi ronmental Sciences, U.K, 1984; chairman, State Tree Planting Campaign Committee, 1986-90; chairman, Borno State Afforesta tion Committee, World Bank 2nd Forestry Project, 1988-89; secretary, Commonwealth sponsored Nigerian Team on Drought and Desertification to Kenya, India and Austra lia, 1986; secretary, Technical Committee on Drought and Desertification, Arid Zone States of Nigeria, 1987-88; member, Na tional Sub-Committee on Ecological Prob lems; Droughts and Desertification. 1986-89; member. National Technical Committee on Drought .and Desertification Control and chairman, National Sub-Committee on Af forestation, 1989-90; member, National Ad visory Committee on the Conservation of Renewal Resources ofthe Natural Resources Council, 1989-92; external examiner, Borno College of Agriculture, Forestry Courses, 1985-88; chairman, Panel ofJudges, Borno State Agricultural Show, 1987; member, National Forestry Development Committee, (NFDC) and Wildlife Conservation Committee, (NWCC) ofNigeria, 1985-date; Hobbies: Nature photography and stamp collection; travelling, listening to music, reading, e.t.c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2410,2419],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17652","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-agriculture","category-environmentalist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}