My friend and former colleague David Edwards, who has died aged 77, was a botanist, lecturer and then senior administrator at Universiti Brunei Darussalam in Brunei, where he made a great contribution to efforts to preserve the tropical rainforest.
In 1990 he became involved in leading, with the Earl of Cranbrook, the Brunei Rainforest Project, a joint venture between the university and the Royal Geographical Society, which, among other things, led to the establishment of the Kuala Belalong field studies centre in the pristine primary rainforest of the Brunei interior
