OUWENEEL GL (1982) Actualities: Mr. Thomas Lebret 1918 - 1982. LIMOSA 55 (3): 103-103.

Thomas Lebret was born on September 10, 1918 to Teteringen. After grammar school in Dordrecht to have completed, he studied law at Leiden. Already in his time wandering the school by the young Lebret Biesbosch, Aileen, or in the company of hunters, Kooikers and rush cutters. These colorful figures from the Old Biesbosch awoke in him a special interest Lebret for waterfowl and orphans in many cases who later would come in handy. It is no surprising that when the German occupation forced him under to dive, he previously rested before he resorts eendenkooicn had found in Frisian. The irregular life during the last war years later cn mapping Lebret did end up in hospital, where He met his future vrauw, Joni Himmel, medical assistant from Switzerland. From that time dates Oak his friendship with Sir Peter Scott, who after surveying Netherlands visited the war am the decoy operation to know. Lebret was given an appointment with the prosecutor to Middeiburg, so he could settle in the heart of the Delta of southwest Netherlands. Rasveldman as Lebret was linked to the institution where am datgeen He was interested to unravel, he was next an expert in waterfowl specialist the 'wet environments'. Then after 1953 under of the Delta Plan changes are apparent at the grate the nature and bird conservation in Southwest Netherlands in the coming decades should parry, Lebret often took the initiative to appoint pm the risks and opportunities that would occur. Once these changes are recognized, he said later, I felt all at once to be. First, his beloved Biesbosch he in 1946 to the Emperor Dijk, together with his Harmsen braedkolonie a friend of the Kwak discovered (Ardea 35: 149), certainly one of the highlights of his life. In 1964, he weighed the chances of it Kwak in the Biesbosch, after elimination of the tides (Limosa 37: 277-298). Oak regarding deterreinen edge and the Hollands Diep and the Haringvliet- Zeeland waters Lebret developed specific ideas for the device after the grate closures, which developments in 1961 in the sig! Otene Veere Longer served him an example. The major trading Ecological succession and waterfowl concentrations (Ardea 52: 48-92) was different management agencies also provide guidance for such complex management of wet environments. Ais board member of the The Zeeland Landscape Foundation and the Foundation The Natural Beer he could in this way his vision for the natural areas of south- Netherlands into practice. He was also delegate for the Netherlands at the International Waterfowl Research Bureau, and he resisted a lot of work for the Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds, from 1947 to 1974 where he was a board position fulfilled. For his work, for this association particular, in 1974 he was appointed officer in the Order of Orange Nassau. It was a privilege to Lebret in the field are. It seemed statutes or the dynamics of the grate tidal areas which he so often wrong in him the ban was - a dynamic that also characterizes was for all his activities. The participants in winter trips to the Romanian Dobrogea from the years 1969-74, especially taken to the Red-breasted Goose in its wintering grounds to know, remember how to Lebret under difficult circumstances sams often took the initiative pm program to finish. Fortunately, many Lebret experiences from the outset to set a work of high quality, that little quantitative to classify will be.

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