Matthew Richardson (author)

Matthew Richardson (born 1966) is a Canadian author and conservationist.
In 2001 he published The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William. For much of the next decade he worked as a primatologist / taxonomist for the U.S.-based NGO Conservation International, co-authoring various books and academic papers. Notable among these were Lemurs of Madagascar (book) and the massive primate volume to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series (for which he also produced all the maps). He also lived and worked, for a time, at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands. In addition to his writing and editing activities he consulted with scientists the world over on questions of conservation and taxonomy, helped to catalog the Royal Ontario Museum's primatology collection, gave lectures, and served as an active member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group.
He is currently working on a thirteen-volume series entitled "Threatened and Recently-Extinct Vertebrates" (Springer, New York).

• The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William (Dundurn Group, 2001).
• Lemurs of Madagascar Pocket Identification Guide – Diurnal and Cathemeral Lemurs, Russell A. Mittermeier, Edward Louis, Matthew Richardson, William R. Konstant, Olivier Langrand, Frank Hawkins, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Rodin Rasoloarison, Jörg Ganzhorn, Serge Rajaobelina and Christophe Schwitzer[1]
• Lemurs of Madagascar Pocket Identification Guide – Nocturnal Lemurs, Russell A. Mittermeier, Edward Louis, Matthew Richardson, William R. Konstant, Olivier Langrand, Frank Hawkins, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Rodin Rasoloarison, Jörg Ganzhorn, Serge Rajaobelina and Christophe Schwitzer
• Lemurs of Madagascar (book), Russell A. Mittermeier, Edward Louis, Matthew Richardson, Christophe Schwitzer, Olivier Langrand, Anthony B. Rylands, Frank Hawkins, Serge Rajaobelina, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Rodin Rasoloarison, Christian Roos, Peter M. Kappeler, and James MacKinnon, Conservation International, 2010.
• Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins [Colin Groves](author of Foreword)
• Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume Three (Primates) (Lynx Edicions, 2012).
• Threatened and Recently-Extinct Vertebrates (Springer, New York, in press).

• "AMICUS Web Full Record - AMICUS - Library and Archives Canada". Amicus.collectionscanada.ca. Retrieved 2009-05-08.