Ignace Schops

Ignace Schops is a landscaping expert and herpetologist and the director of the Regional Landscape Kempen and Maasland. In  2009 he was appointed International Ambassador of Biodiversity and member of the International Advisory Board for Countdown 2010, an initiative of the International Union for Nature Conservation. Besides being the vice-president of Natuurpunt Vlaanderen and secretary of the board of Natuurpunt Limburg, he’s an author and frequent international keynote speaker on herpetology, nature conservation and landscaping. In 2008, Schops won the ‘Goldman Environmental Prize’, the Green Nobel Prize for Nature conservation.