Ian Swingland
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Born | Ian Richard Swingland 2 November 1946 Barnet, England, United Kingdom |
Occupation(s) | Biodiversity; academia, business and charities |
Years active | 1968–present |
Criminal charges | Conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation |
Ian Richard Swingland (born 2 November 1946) is a British conservationist, convicted in 2017 of conspiring to commit fraud by false representation.
Early years and education
Swingland is the only child of Flora Mary (née Fernie), who was recruited by
Career
In 1974, Swingland joined
Swingland founded the
Swingland was a draftsman of part of the
Swingland was invited (2010, 2012) by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning and the Swedish Research Council to evaluate their biodiversity and Linnaeus research programmes throughout the country.[citation needed]
Swingland has been an advisor on conservation and biodiversity management to the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, the Asian Development Bank, and the UK Government,[6][7][8] and has been employed as a research and management biologist in the Kafue National Park, Zambia, helping to write the management plan; and the Sundarban Biodiversity Conservation Project in Bangladesh.[9] Swingland has been heavily involved with the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, the largest biodiversity project[10] belonging to the Commonwealth and was appointed Chairman of the International Board of Trustees (2002) by the president of Guyana and the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat under the patronage of the Prince of Wales.[citation needed] He also advised China on integrated ecosystem management projects;[11] its aim was to reduce land degradation, create alternative livelihoods, and conserve biodiversity using a market, not donation, approach. He led the Indian Ocean and Galapagos part of Operation Drake, and was a member of a UK scientific expedition, the Royal Geographical Society expedition to the rainforest of Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak.
Swingland is director emeritus and former trustee of Earthwatch 1999–2009, and is a founding trustee, former chair and now Trust Patron of Operation Wallacea since 2010. The trust funds projects which seek to empower communities and individuals to develop successful commercially viable enterprises linked to the protection of biodiversity.
Awards and recognition
Swingland was made an honorary Doctor of Sciences by the University of Kent for his service to biodiversity conservation.[12] He was awarded the Freedom of London in 2001 and made an Honorary Bioscience Fellow, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International, 2002.[citation needed] He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society (FZS) 1974 and a member of the Athenaeum Club, London 2004.
Swingland was appointed
Criminal prosecution
Ian Swingland was involved with Carbon Research and Development Limited, a now defunct company incorporated in Mauritius on 21 March 2005, and stood trial (with others) on charges involving the facilitation of tax evasion between 2005 and 2008.[16][17] At the end of the trial, which commenced on 20 September 2016 and lasted four months, he was acquitted on the principal charge.[18] He was found guilty on 3 March 2017 of one count of conspiring to commit fraud by false representation, receiving a two-year sentence, suspended for 18 months at Southwark Crown Court on 10 March 2017.[19]
Reporting restrictions relating to the various trials brought under the "Operation Amazon" investigation were maintained until 25 February 2019.[20] On 30 September 2017, while remaining a benefactor, Swingland resigned as a director of The Wallacea Trust. On 30 November his name was erased from the register of members of the Order of the British Empire.
Published works
- The Ecology of Animal Movement Swingland, IR, Greenwood, PG (editors). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983) ISBN 0-19-857575-0
- Living in a Patchy Environment Shorrocks, B and Swingland, IR (editors). (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) Hardback ISBN 978-0-19-854591-0
- Integrated Protected Area Management Walkey, M, Swingland, IR and Russell, S.(editors) (MA and Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) ISBN 0-412-80360-7
- Carbon, Biodiversity, Conservation and Income: An analysis of a free market approach to Land use change and forestry in Developing and Developed Countries. Swingland IR,. Bettelheim EC, Grace J, Ghillean T, Prance and Lindsay, Saunders S (compilers) Theme Issue for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 2002
- Capturing carbon and conserving biodiversity: the market approach Swingland IR (editor), (Royal Society-Earthscan, 2003) 392 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-1-85383-951-1
- CO2 e biodiversità: Un approccio integrato a favore del clima e del patrimonio naturale. Swingland I.R. (editor). (Edizioni Ambiente, Milano, Italy, 2004) 296 pp. ISBN 88-89014-19-9
- Integrated Wetland Management: Symposium of International Workshop on Integrated Wetlands Management. Niu Z., Swingland I.R., Lei G. (editors).(Asian Development Bank PRC-7021 & China Ocean Press 2012) In English 255pp, in Mandarin 183pp. Softback ISBN 978-7-5027-8414-0
Swingland also has some fifty papers published in books and journals such as Nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Zoology (London), Journal of Animal Ecology, Animal Behaviour, and Proceedings of the Royal Society.
References
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- ^ "The Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust – Home". The Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Biodiversity and Conservation- – incl. option to publish open access". Springer. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Swingland, Ian, ed. (1 April 2003). Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity: The Market Approach. Routledge. ASIN 1853839507.
- ^ "Prince Charles’ offshore investment in Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd: A cautionary tale featuring conflicts of interest, a web of offshore companies, carbon credits, transfer pricing, and tax avoidance galore". REDD, 15 November 2017
- ^ "Report No. PID7208 Project Name Bangladesh-Gorai River Restoration Project". World Bank. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem and Agricultural Development Project" (PDF). ADB.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Protected Area Mgt. and Wildlife Conservation Project : Sri Lanka". ADB.org. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Sundarban Biodiversity Conservation Project" (PDF). ADB.org. Retrieved 17 November 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Iwokrama Newsletter – September Issue". Iwokrama.org. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "PRC-GEF Partnership on Land Degradation in Dryland Ecosystems" (PDF). ADB.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ University of Kent (6 November 2018). "Honorary graduates 2000–09". Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "No. 58196". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 May 1924. p. 13.
- ^ "No. 62125". The London Gazette. 30 November 2017. p. 22126.
- ^ Perkins, Eleanor (26 February 2019). "Scientist stripped of OBE". Kent Online. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ Court News UK (20 September 2016). "World Renowned Conservationist 'Was Tax Swindler'". Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Renowned conservationist was involved in £60m tax dodging scheme, court hears", The Telegraph, 21 September 2016
- ^ Carmelite Chambers. "Jonathan Lennon" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ Perkins, Eleanor (26 February 2019). "Professor Ian Swingland from Sandwich stripped of OBE after assisting fraudsters in HIV cure scam". Kent Messenger. Strood. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Two jailed for 60 million pounds fraudulent HIV cure tax fraud". 25 February 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
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