Groupe de spécialistes des plantes carnivores de la CSE de l'UICN

Robert Cantley was educated as a physicist and then later as an electronics engineer, with his final “real” job being a police officer in Hong Kong. Along the way he became interested in Nepenthes when living in Brunei, where he ran a small nursery business from 1984 -1990 whilst also pursuing his many other interests. In 1997 he resigned from the Royal Hong Kong Police to start the a Company called Borneo Exotics www.borneoexotics.net in Sri Lanka. Borneo Exotics is a business venture employing over 80 people but also plays a role in conservation, by legally propagating many endangered species of carnivorous plants using state of the art plant tissue culture techniques. Robert has been involved with conservation work with carnivorous plants since his late teens and contributed data of many taxa of Nepenthes that helped form earlier versions of the Red List.

Born in Amsterdam in 1967, I was educated in The Netherlands as a Landscape manager (Larenstein, BSc) and a Spatial planner (Wageningen, MSc).

After working as manager for a local water authority and as Head of Public Works for a small city I am currently a Strategic Policy Advisor for Inland Waterways.

Since 1979 I have been growing carnivorous plants as a hobbyist, focusing on Drosera and hardy Pinguicula.

I am a former president of both the Dutch (Carnivora) and International (ICPS) Carnivorous Plant Societies.

My involvement with the IUCN-SSC Carnivorous Plants Specialist Group (CPSG) started in 2014 as the communications officer.

Originally as Communications officer, currently as co-chair of this group.