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Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby (born 1940) is a Chilean botanist, environmentalist, and author. She was Chile's Environment Minister in 2000 and 2001. She has advocated for the sustainable management and protection of Chilean forests, leading opposition to illegal logging in her role as coordinator of Defensores del Bosque Chileno (Defenders of the Chilean Forest) since 1992. Hoffmann has authored over a dozen books on the flora of Chile and has identified and classified 106 new species of cactus.〔 ==Early life and career== Adriana Hoffmann was born in Santiago to Lola (''née'' Jacoby) and Franz Hoffmann in 1940. She grew up in Providencia and attended Liceo Manuel de Salas. She was accepted at the University of Chile where she initially studied agronomy. She joined her mother when she traveled to Germany to study psychiatric techniques and there Adriana changed her focus to biology and specialized in botany and ecology. After she finished her studies, she returned to Chile and married engineer Hernán Calderón. They lived abroad for a time until returning to Chile in the 1970s.〔 Through her career, Hoffmann traveled throughout Chile, documenting flora and describing species. By April 2008, she had identified and classified 106 new species of ''Cactaceae''. In 1992, Hoffmann became coordinator of the non-profit organization Defensores del Bosque Chileno, Chile's largest forest protection group.〔 She formed Agrupación de Defensores del Bosque Nativo in 1994, a group whose founding members included well-known singers and poets as well as economist Manfred Max Neef and Bishop Bernardino Piñera. By the mid-1990s, Hoffmann was recognized as one of Chile's premier environmental activists. Hoffmann has served on the board of the Lahuen Foundation, a forest preservation organization that established El Cañi Sanctuary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theconservationlandtrust.org/eng/el_cani.htm )〕 She also played a leading role in the Chilean Science Society, Biology Society of Chile, Earth Foundation, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the Association of Chilean Female Leaders.〔 Hoffmann's efforts with Defensores del Bosque included developing environmental education programs for teachers. Hoffmann was appointed by President Ricardo Lagos to serve as Executive Secretary of the National Commission of the Environment (''Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente''; CONAMA) in March 2000. During her tenure she oversaw the creation of the national hiking trail network Sendero de Chile, improved the System of Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA), and worked to implement environmental education programs and improve air quality in Santiago. During her tenure she encountered criticism from business interests for her environmentalist stances and from environmental groups for her perceived lack of influence within the administration. Following the controversial approval of petcoke for gas-fired generators over her objections, Hoffmann resigned in October 2001, stating that she no longer felt she was supported by Lagos or the Ministers.〔 She returned to work with Defensores del Bosque and prepared for her eventual retirement to a beach home in Cachagua.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adriana Hoffmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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