Toomas Frey (13 December 1937 – 23 September 2020) was an Estonian ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist.[1]

Frey was born in Põltsamaa. He was also a political leader, with the Estonian Green Movement. When he was named Minister of the Environment in 1990, it was the first time a member of a green political organisation reached a national position in any European government.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Priist Kask (16 June 2010). "Teenekas ökoloog Toomas Frey 70" (in Estonian), Eesti mets. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Rudig (April 2002). "Between Ecotopia and disillusionment: Green parties in European government", Environment 44 (3): 20–33.


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